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The American West

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    Ep. 33: Time and Time Again: The Fascinating Evidence from Western Repeat Photography

    16/06/2026 | 55 mins.
    Calling on the photographic record made of the American West from 150 to 100 years ago, modern photographers have repeated many of the same scenes and found remarkable differences in the ecology and look of western landscapes. The question is, why such change?
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    Ep. 32: Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Rewilding the Plains

    09/06/2026 | 57 mins.
    While conservation focused national parks creation on the vertical mountains and canyons of the West, the Great Plains ended up de-buffaloed and mostly ignored. But with new, 21st century approaches to reversing that historical slight, the Plains Serengeti is on its way back.
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    Ep. 31: Cabeza de Vaca’s Fantastic Journey

    02/06/2026 | 51 mins.
    Almost exactly 500 years ago, a shipwrecked Spaniard named Cabeza de Vaca and three companions made the first trans-continental journey in the history of the American West. Then he wrote down his account of eight years in Native America, one of the great First Contact stories of all time.
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    Ep. 30: Jesus and Animus Beneath the Bitterroots

    26/05/2026 | 52 mins.
    Religion is often at the center of historical events in the West. The founding of modern Montana, in fact, happened when Native people famously pleaded for Christian missionaries. The question was whether the Christians actually understood what the Indians were asking for.
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    Introducing: Future Wild

    20/05/2026 | 1 mins.
    Future Wild is a one-on-one interview podcast pairing host, author, and outdoorsman Mark Kenyon and world-class subject matter experts to explore topics relevant to the future of wildlife and wild places, hunting and fishing, and other outdoor pursuits. Future Wild is here to answer the questions being asked by the deeply curious and passionate in the hunting, angling, and outdoor communities.
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About The American West
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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