Dan Flores

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

Dr. Sibley tells me that his voyage on the Missouri and Columbia has been an entire success and that he is the toast of Washington.

I beseech you also, sir, to assure my family of my safety.

Dr. Sibley has told me of the false accounts of our fate in the New Orleans papers, which I fear may have found their way to Charlottesville.

You will learn from Mr. Freeman's report, the chronology of our exploration to the source of the river, his success in delivering your message to the Indians, respecting our wish for peace and trade and the transfer of their allegiance to us.

Mr. Freeman has given me to understand in very confidential terms your certain disappointment that the Red River does not access Santa Fe, the Mexican mountains, and the possibilities thereof.

My account of our journey from the Pawnee villages to the head sources of the Red River with a brief notice of our return to Natchitoches follows.

We left the Pawnee villages on September the 11th, 1806 at daybreak.

The party selected to penetrate to the remotest sources of the river consisting of 23 citizens of the United States, my black man, and three Indian guides.

Our cavy, a word the hunters use to refer to a party's drove of horses, consisted of 37 riding horses and mules which were employed to pack our scientific instruments, collections, and presents and flags for the tribes of river.

We left the scattered oak woods the first day and soon entered a country that for vastness and desolation I took then to be the equal of any on earth.

Many days at a stretch passed with no precipitation of any sort, and the sky an immense inverted blue bowl over our heads.

The sun was harsh, the light exceedingly bright to the eye, and the yellow grasses began to mimic the dwarfing we had early observed in tree growth.

I attempted my first images with the camera obscura of this region.

they will show the presidential eye a land rolling away like gentle ocean waves in every direction from our tiny party.

Consistently away from the river, the effect of such travel was to surmount the wave crest before us with the expectation of having achieved an overlook only to find another higher crest directly ahead.

Species new to science in this region included a wild chicken different from the grouse of the eastern states and the prairie goat I saw distantly in the prairies short of the Pawnee villages but did not collect there.

I now believe this animal to be an antelope or gazelle similar to those of Africa

and found in great numbers in a part of Louisiana that resembles Africa south of the Sahara.

It is an exceedingly actively made creature, remarkably light of frame and with bulging eyes made for seeing across these great distances.

Both males and females possess true horns, not antlers, which they shed.

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