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 guy who, the Spanish kid who's raised as an Indian who guides them farther west, Tadasuk, he's a real person.

These are all people that I know about from having done research about this part of the world.

And then I'll add one other thing to this, and this is probably going to be more germane when we get to the second half of the story of this adventure that I'm sending them on.

I spent quite a number of years

living in the part of the world where Freeman and Custis are going to end up going.

And I wrote two books about that part of the world.

One of them, which was about all the Canyon country that was out there and almost every one of which I explored on foot and camped out in.

And so it's also, the story is also informed by the fact that where I have them going,

And they are going to be going to the very logical places that they would have gone had they actually continued on.

I've been there and hiked and camped and climbed in past years.

So it's a pretty well-informed counterfactual story.

Well, because I wrote the primary book on this expedition,

I mean, and it was a story that was almost completely unknown in American history, really, until I did the first version of it, which I called Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration.

I felt a strong obligation to figure out who these people were.

And so I did quite a bit of research to try to

try to come up with some sense of who Peter Custis was.

He was the cousin of George Washington's wife, Martha, had married a Custis.

Martha Washington had been married before she married George Washington, and she married into the Custis family in Virginia, which was like the Randolphs and the Lees, and it was one of those

big, well-keeled, landed families in Virginia, very near Charlottesville, where Jefferson lived in Albemarle County, the same county, which is why Jefferson knew him.

And so he's related to a lot of heavyweight figures in that part of the world.

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