Dan Flores
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Gunfighters · Ep. 38: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part I | The American West · 21 Jul 2026
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Others with some familiarity with the Orient thought they must have been built by the same hands that constructed the towers of Constantinople.
Well, you know, like probably
I haven't written a lot of fiction.
I've written a little bit.
Probably like most people who write fiction, historical fiction particularly, you actually do a lot of research.
And because I knew this expedition well, because I wrote the only major book that exists on it, and I read –
a lot of the accounts that both Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis assembled for the piece of the river that they actually did get to explore.
One thing I can say is that I think I'm probably pretty close to the tone and the writing style that Peter Custis brought to these submissions that he made to the government.
And
on the expedition before it was stopped by Spain in the summer of 1806, he submitted four of these reports.
And so what I had in mind for the counterfactual version, okay, I'm going to invent an excuse to allow them to keep going.
And so I'm going to let him continue to do exactly the same thing.
Custis is going to submit two more major reports about what the river is like as they explore
onto the sources of it.
And then the other thing I would say, of course, is that many of the people mentioned here, the names of individual people are all directly out of history.
In the second part of this, when we get farther west among the Comanches, I use the names of
Comanche leaders who existed at the time.
And the reason I know all this is because I've done enough research and written sort of all around this kind of story that I knew from the moment I sat down to write this who the people were who were out there, who Freeman and Custis would be encountering, that Pawnee leader, Owahakai, he's a real guy, the young woman who is going to help him with the Pawnee
vocabulary.
She's a real person.
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