Dan Flores

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

But the problem was,

Jefferson had already selected Thomas Freeman, who was an Irish immigrant.

He was not a native-born American.

And Alexander Wilson was also an immigrant.

He was a Scottish immigrant.

And Jefferson didn't want to confront having people say- The politics of that.

Yeah, that you're appointing all these guys from some other part of the world to lead this expedition.

So instead, he picked Peter Custis to do it.

And Custis, after the expedition-

I mean, the expedition actually has, in his case, a sort of a tragic conclusion because all of his materials are turned over to a guy named Nicholas King, who evidently couldn't read Peter Custis' handwriting.

And whenever the publication of the Red River Expedition came out,

this Nicholas King guy so mangled Custis' Latin binomials that anybody who would have read those reports would have thought, so this guy is an idiot.

He actually doesn't know Linnaean science.

And I think in a way that turned Custis away from natural history.

He moved to New Bern, North Carolina, and became a doctor, a kind of a country doctor, and married the daughter of a fellow doctor,

And was there for, I mean, he lived to 1842.

He outlived everybody else that was on the expedition.

And there are several kind of accounts of people who used him as their doctor, who referred to him as lovable, but gruff.

But so that's kind of about as much as you can put together about somebody who's

Alive in the beginning of the 1800s.

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