Podcast Episodes

Ep. 14: Wolf West

Season 1

As a native family of American animals, for more than five million years wolves of various kinds have been keystone predators of western ecologies. Before humans arrived they shaped the West more tha…

Published on 9 hours ago

Introducing: Blood Trails

Blood Trails is a new investigative podcast from MeatEater, hosted by writer and journalist Jordan Sillars. Each episode digs into true crime stories from the world of hunting and fishing—cases where…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Ep. 13: A Western Geography of Hope

Season 1

Dramatic and inspirational western landscapes have been a powerful feature of western history throughout time. During and after the Civil War, a group of adventuring artists and photographers helped …

Published on 2 weeks ago

Ep. 12: John James Audubon and Vanishing America

Season 1

Before 1850 the artist and naturalist John James Audubon was America’s most famous celebrity. His Birds of America was widely regarded as “the greatest monument ever erected by art to nature.” But li…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Ep. 11: Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses

Season 1

When the western artist George Catlin journeyed to the Southern Plains in 1834 the animal that caught his attention there was the wild horse, which covered the country in immense herds. Little known …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Ep. 10: Start of the Endgame for the Ancient West

Season 1

When Lewis & Clark saw the West in the first years of the 1800s it still preserved the healthy biodiversity of Native-managed ecologies in place for 10,000 years. Within thirty years, everything had …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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 2 months, 1 week 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 months, 3 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 3 months 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 3 months, 1 week ago