Dan Flores

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4,468 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 18 Aug

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

And nobody could find where the Red River headed for most of the 19th century.

So what I'm going to have these guys do is they're going to discover a mystery that actually American geographic exploration doesn't find until the 1870s.

And it's going to require them to just stick to the course of the river and track it all the way to where it goes.

But

all of these other expeditions kept saying, well, it must head here.

And they would just try to go to some spot and they would find a river, but it would be the Canadian or it would be the Pecos.

And it would never be the Red River that Jefferson wanted to explore.

So as I said in the introduction to it, I mean, it's the same decade that Sir Richard Burton discovers the sources of the Nile that we finally figure out where the Red River comes from.

Yeah, it's going to be fun, I think, in episode two of this.

Gunfighters · Ep. 37: The Wolf Returns to the West | The American West · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

at phelpsgamecalls.com the return of gray wolves mexican wolves and red wolves to the west is an unfolding history yet to play out but it's a watershed in the western story i'm dan flores and this is the american west

The Wolf Returns to the West.

Stepping ashore in the early 1600s, we old-worlders were bitter to discover wolves were abundant in America.

That's truly curious if you know human history.

Since thousands of generations of us had watched and learned from wolves for half a million years or more,

Domesticated wolves were our first companion animals, our oldest animal helpmates, our templates for domestication, because as hunters, both humans and wolves saw so much of themselves in the other.

But there were handed down memories that were more recent.

In Eurasia, wild wolves ceased to be our blood brothers when 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, we started taming and herding ungulates.

Native people in America never took that step with bison or bighorn sheep or pronghorns, and consequently they lived among wolves without animus, continuing to admire and learn from them, seeking them as totems.

But Europeans landed in America with all their past centuries of wolf hatred at full boil, plus a recent memory of success at eradicating wolves in places like the British Isles.

There was also that shepherd's religion we brought with us, which calls something else into play.

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