Dan Flores

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

The storms of this country appear fully the equal of the vastness of its scale.

We travel for almost a week through this sandy desert, inhabited principally by the burrowing squirrel and vegetated in place by grown oaks now reaching only to the height of the knee, also increasingly by kinds of cactus.

Here we encountered the large crested cuckoo, which the Indians call snake bird for its skill in killing rattlesnakes.

It secures them behind the head with a rapid dart of the beak and smashes the head on rocks till the serpent lies senseless.

On the autumnal equinox, a line of mountains rose pretentiously in our path to the west.

appearing at first like a low stratum of blue clouds before us.

I say line because from the distance, which we thought very near, but that required two long days to cross, a frequent miscalculation in all this upriver region, owing to the extreme transparency of the atmosphere, these mountains appeared to constitute an almost uniformly horizontal summit,

with but few peaks visible and others of an odd block shape.

To our discomfort, as we neared this line of mountains, the water in the river, though clear, assumed a taste so salty and so liable to expand in the mouth that it was with difficulty that we drank of it, and I was kept busy treating the men for the cramping.

These indeed may be the salt mountains about which the president has been so curious.

We now entered a country much gashed and torn where the soil was red as blood like the red beds of Georgia and crystallized spiderwebs of salt, most often laid in horizontal strata, were exposed in an array of striking patterns in the tributaries.

Wild horses were here extremely abundant, and repeatedly we were forced to rout the stallions which sought to toll away our remounts.

Here, too, a new kind of deer made its appearance, different from the common deer in several particulars, among them its black-tipped tail and mule-like ears, but most readily in its gait, hence our name for it, Hopping Deer.

As if it presented a kind of general template, there was also a large hare that differed from the familiar kind, not just in size, but in a black tail and remarkably long ears.

Tedesuc said there were times when the hares swarmed the entire country.

So many, they rivaled the buffalo.

All the while, the strange mountains loomed before us.

assuming forms and shapes such as I have never seen in the art of Rosa or Turner or anyone else.

Some agreed that these bizarre and unprecedented forms carved from rock layers of the mountains most resembled the turrets, towers,

and porticos of castles on the Rhine.

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