Podcast Episodes

Ep. 09: Catlin’s and Bodmer’s "Time Machine Visuals"

Season 1

Landscapes, wildlife, and Native people dominated the fascination with the early American West, but imagining that world is not easy. Fortunately, two talented and committed painters, one American an…

Published on 6 hours ago

Ep. 08: Beyond the Earth’s Curve, Mysteries

Season 1

Despite an ancient Native inhabitation and recent European settlements and forays around the perimeter of the West, in the early 19th century much of the interior West was still a place of conjecture…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Ep. 07: Jefferson’s "Other" Lewis & Clark

Season 1

Despite Lewis and Clark’s singular fame, Thomas Jefferson never intended their expedition to be the sole U.S. scientific exploration into the country’s new Louisiana Purchase. Just as compelling to h…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Introducing: Back 40

Back 40 dives deep into the world of whitetails, one burning question at a time. In each episode, host Jake Hofer sits down with multiple seasoned whitetail experts to tackle a whitetail conundrum fa…

Published on 1 month ago

Ep. 06: Survivors From A Lost World

Season 1

America’s pronghorn antelope has long struck observers as a beautiful feature of western landscapes, but as an enigma. Why does it run so fast? Why can’t it jump obstacles? And for those who really k…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Ep. 05: The Wild New World of the American Serengeti

Season 1

In the early 1800s, when American and European scientific explorers first began to probe the unfamiliar West with its landscapes and animals so remarkably different from those of the East, the Great …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ep. 04: Old Man America

Season 1

Thousands of years ago Native people in the West chose, among all the possibilities, the coyote as the deity animal in their various stories of North America’s creation. Then they proceeded to fashio…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Ep. 03: Raven’s and Coyote’s America

Season 1

For 10,000 years, from the end of the Pleistocene to the coming of Old Worlders to America, a diverse population of Native people lived in North America while somehow managing to preserve almost all …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Introducing: Backwoods University with Lake Pickle

Backwoods University explores wildlife biology and the people who dedicate their lives to studying animals and their habitats. Guided by host Lake Pickle’s curiosity, you’ll hear insights from wildli…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Ep. 02: Clovisia the Beautiful

Season 1

Thirteen-thousand years ago the first human culture to colonize all of North America, in this case from Pacific to Atlantic shores, was the Clovis culture of highly-proficient Siberian hunters. While…

Published on 3 months ago