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The American West

The American West

By: MeatEater
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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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  • Ep. 21: How You Create a New West, and a New America

    Ep. 21: How You Create a New West, and a New America
    Feb 10 2026

    Teddy Roosevelt enjoyed a lifestyle and political career that made him the most important president in history for the creation of a West and a country centered on conservation. In the process his obsession with nature finally took the U.S. in a different policy direction than the countries of western Europe we had tried for three centuries to emulate.

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    53 mins
  • Ep. 20: Coyote: America’s Jackal and Its Roller-Coaster Ride Through History

    Ep. 20: Coyote: America’s Jackal and Its Roller-Coaster Ride Through History
    Jan 27 2026

    Like no other western animal the coyote has been a central character in the Pleistocene West, the Native West, and the Frontier. One of the epic stories of the Modern West is how coyotes are transferring their own brand of western survivalism to the entire country. Despite a $500 million-dollar war to exterminate them, the coyote is in fact The Dude, and The Dude absolutely abides.

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    53 mins
  • Ep. 19: Shadows of the Frontier

    Ep. 19: Shadows of the Frontier
    Jan 13 2026

    When the U.S. Census announced in 1890 that the Frontier was over, America was plunged into a period of anxiety. As evidenced by the grand Indian photographs of Edward Sheriff Curtis, western nostalgia became a dominant theme of art, film, and pop culture. Another artist of the age, though, showed that the West endures into the modern age.

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    50 mins
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