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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 3 months, 2 weeks 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 4 months 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 4 months, 2 weeks 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 01: West of Everything
Season 1
The American West fascinates people from around the world, but there are many different kinds of iconic western stories. Author Dan Flores has spent a career writing about what he calls the Natural W…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Introducing: The American West with Dan Flores
New from the MeatEater Podcast Network: Long-time western author Dan Flores presents a big picture history of an American West you've never encountered. Covering a vast time span in a western America…
Published on 6 months ago