Ep. 12: John James Audubon and Vanishing America

Ep. 12: John James Audubon and Vanishing Amer...

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Ep. 25: Thinking About Big History in One Western Place

A road trip with Steven Rinella across the High Plains to the Blackwater Draw Unesco Site on the border of Texas and New Mexico leads to an assessment of 13,000 years of change in one western environment, where people have practiced every kind of life way from hunting elephants t ...  Show more

Ep. 24: Getting Over the Color Green and Learning to Love Badlands

In the 20th century peculiar landforms dismissed earlier in western history with the denigrating term “badlands” became compelling locations for scientists and artists in the West. First passed over as economically worthless, these barren, colorful landscapes were translated by p ...  Show more

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