Jeff Roche
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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There are no navigable rivers.
So it's just this part of the world.
Like I said, it's one of Earth's great savannas.
And it's such an alien landscape for most Europeans.
And it was such a harsh, unforgiving landscape that even indigenous peoples
very rarely had any kind of long-term presence really anywhere in this part of the world.
You know, there may be a group that'll come out and spend a few generations, a couple hundred years, but no sort of long-lasting settlements.
It's that alien, that harsher landscape.
Yeah.
So good night.
Again, people who are familiar with Western history have run into his name before.
He's one of the greatest ranchers in American history.
Fantastic businessman.
And, you know, one of these sort of legitimate frontier figures.
I mean, he literally did it all.
He had been a rancher since he was a teenager.
And he grew up sort of near the cross timbers.
And he was one of the sort of pioneer ranchers who developed the kind of ranching that would spread across the western half of the Great Plains.
First it was range ranching where you let your cattle sort of wander around and then you round them up a couple times a year, you brand them, take them to market.
He was one of the innovators in that.
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