Dan Flores

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Gunfighters · Ep. 38: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part I | The American West · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

By August 19, we emerged from the sandy oak country into a prairie more extensive and vast than we have yet seen.

The soil calcareous rather than loamy black as below.

with white limestone full of shells exposed in the stream beds.

Indeed, rather than prairie, this country might properly be called, following General Wilkinson's map, the Great Plains or the Grand Prairie.

Open and elevated, it was exceedingly pleasant and more insect-free than any country in my experience.

Among numerous species new to me is a gourd I collected.

I found it growing in all the buffalo wallows that indent this plain so profusely that at the low angles of the sun, their craters cast a pox of shadows across the smooth grasslands.

We found buffaloes and wild horses in such plenty in this grand prairie that the mind cannot grasp their abundance.

So too were white wolves, which we saw in the hundreds every day trotting along at the heels of the buffaloes, and so tame we began to feel we must have been invisible to them.

Alligators, so numerous in the vicinity of the great raft, are no longer found on the Red River where it courses through these prairies.

Four days before reaching the Pawnee villages, the vast plains gave way to another broken country, and once again, oaks and common cedars overspread the land, but growing in more park-like fashion here, as if the country were regularly swept by fires, as indeed the hunters and Indian guides assured us it was.

It was here that I collected the spiny shrub the hunters called mosquit, which grows in the declivities only, never on the uplands, as it appears to be sensitive to the great prairie conflagrations which burn it up.

According to Talapun, who has traveled extensively in the direction of the Spanish settlements to the south, it becomes more common and grows to a much larger size farther south.

Many species eat the bean-like seed pods.

Due to Mr. Freeman's urgency to reach the Pawnee villages so we might continue on to the Mexican mountains in the vicinity of Santa Fe before winter, I did not have sufficient opportunity to study the habits of the buffalo and the wild horses.

But knowing the president's keen interest in the latter particularly, I will seek occasion to do so.

I do note that bears and lions remain common, that the Virginia deer not being hunted much by the Indians in Buffalo country are as common and tame as barnyard stock round about the Pawnee villages.

In addition to the white wolves, which on intimate acquaintance are grizzled gray and some even of a black color, there is another wolf midway in size between the fox and the white wolf.

It is more sharply made than the white wolf, rather more blonde in coloring and very vocal like its kin, but replaces the large wolf's mournful howls with barks and yips of great variety.

I am sending along a skin and skull.

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