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The American West

The American West

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In this new podcast, writer Dan Flores presents a big picture history of an American West you've never encountered. With the West's deep time, its grand natural world, and its wild animals as their focus, these episodes tell a fresh story of America's most fascinating region.

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  • Ep. 17: What Really Happened to America’s National Mammal?

    Ep. 17: What Really Happened to America’s National Mammal?
    Dec 16 2025

    America’s national mammal possesses a troubling story in western history. For a century writers have presented the fate of the buffalo as brought down by a federal conspiracy that plotted the animal’s demise to undermine Native cultures. With an animal this important to American and western history, understanding the more realistic and accurate version of its 19th and 20th century story seems a critical step as we figure out how to go forward in returning America’s most iconic mammal to the modern West.

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  • Ep. 16: A Dream of Bison

    Ep. 16: A Dream of Bison
    Dec 2 2025

    Present on the continent for nearly half-a-million years, the American bison’s numbers and near perfect adaptation to the Great Plains made it one of the evolutionary marvels of Earth. For more than 10,000 years, Native people in the West had intertwined their lives with bison herds to create the longest sustained economies and religious traditions in American history. Then over two centuries of whirlwind change in Native America, the bison was suddenly and mysteriously gone from the wild.

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  • Ep. 15: The Most Dangerous Beast? Or the God of the West?

    Ep. 15: The Most Dangerous Beast? Or the God of the West?
    Nov 18 2025

    Grizzly bears emerged in North America nearly two-hundred thousand years ago and became the Lord Beast of the American West. Native people regarded them as formidable animal gods. Europeans and Americans thought of them as wildlands monsters that needed to be eliminated. Saved before they disappeared, today grizzly bears are surviving, spreading, and distinguish the Mountain West from all other regions in the Lower 48.

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I've been a fan of Professor Flores since first coming across his work in American Serengeti. He's able to deftly balance factual description with scientific and historical explanation/analysis, while infusing the totality with a sense of wonder, awe, and mystery. He captures the essence of the west more than any other writer I've read. In this podcast, he's at peak performance. In addition to the breadth of knowledge conveyed, Professor Flores is a master of the penetrating vignette to illuminate key points of analysis and understanding. I'm really enjoying the format of a prepared exposition followed by discussion with Steven and Randall, two intelligent and entertaining interlocutors. All in all, top notch. My favorite podcast of all time.

Dan Flores at the height of his powers!

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