Dan Flores

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

Sure.

There's not even a photograph of him, for example.

We don't have a photographic image or a painting as exists for William Clark and Meriwether Lewis of either one of these guys.

Well, yeah, that's one of the fun things about doing this, absolutely, is that progression from east to west is something that I grew up doing because growing up in Louisiana and being fascinated with the west, I mean, as soon as I was able to get keys to a car, I was taking off and driving through all this country and watching these same things, watching all the vegetation gradually dwarf and shrink

away and watching it become possible to see the horizon.

I mean, in Louisiana, you can't see an horizon that's more than 50 feet away.

The trees are so dense.

But as you go west, of course, the country opens up more and more until finally you can see horizons a mile away and eventually 20 miles away.

And very rapidly, not only is the landscape changing, but all the animals are beginning to change.

And that has always been something that

I've had a lot of fun sort of imagining how people would react to that.

And I've known because of the research I've done, I've known pretty much where the first prairie dog towns showed up, the first chance you had to see pronghorns, where you were going to encounter mule deer for the first time.

And it's going to be fun, I can tell you, to carry this on where they're going to end up.

Because as I said in this script, one of the fascinating things about this particular river, which Jefferson regarded as, as he wrote, next to the Missouri, the most interesting water of the West is the Red River.

And he thought it came out of.

the so-called Mexican mountains, the Southern Rockies near Santa Fe.

And I think the reason he's sending these guys there is because what he's anticipating is what becomes 15 years later, the Santa Fe trade.

Yeah, the trade route.

And so that's why he's so interested in having them go here.

But what becomes the big mystery of all of this is that the Red River doesn't head in the mountains near Santa Fe.

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