00:00:00 Speaker 1: The West seems to fascinate the world in a way no other American region can touch. Why can't you get your John Wayne fixed on TV at any sleepless three am? Why is a soap opera Western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? How do shoe store sell five thousand dollars cowboy boots that'll never see a stirrup? And why is the phrase It's just like the Wild West cause all of us to imagine full freedom of action, that no one's regulating. The American West with Dan Floores is the latest show from the Meat Eater podcast network, hosted by me writer in historian Dan Floores and brought to you by Velvet Buck Wine with a backbone. By focusing on deep time and wild animals and the West's unique environments, this podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode, I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West, such as North America during the Pleisscene epoch, the distribution of the first paintings and images of the region, and Thomas Jefferson's second Lewis and Clark Expedition. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian doctor Randall Williams and best selling author and Meat Eater founder Steven Ranella. 00:01:20 Speaker 2: Oh, correct, my kids now, and then they'll say when cave people were here? And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. 00:01:30 Speaker 1: So jointly, starting Tuesday, May sixth, for the American West with Dan Flores on the Meat Eater podcast network, where we'll delve into stories of the West, gain a deeper appreciation of its history, and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today.

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