Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 207.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and we are recording this episode on April 19, 26, in Austin, Texas.

We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without intentional presentism. We believe there's dignity in our

national story, along with tragedy, triumph, brilliance, hypocrisy, magnificence, magnificence, depravity, corruption, venality,

inspiration, oppression, genius, defeat, and glory.

I still like saying that sometimes.

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app of choice so you know when a new episode drops. This is an experimental mini episode,

the result of me following my muse while studying up on the Pueblo Revolt.

Here to four, I've wanted to keep episodes to at least 30 minutes,

but that has meant that I either passed on some shorter stories that interested me,

or I combined various unrelated topics into one episode of normal length.

This is a case when, going down a rabbit hole on the Pueblo revolt, I started reading about something I've wondered about. How exactly did the Indians of

the American West get horses and learn to use them rather than eat them.

It seems like a topic that is important enough to talk about,

but risks tedium if talked about too long.

Now, while some might argue that this episode is a sidebar according to the nomenclature of this podcast,

I've decided it is legitimately on the timeline of the history of the Americans, and have therefore denied it the sidebar designation.

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, covered in episodes 205 and 206, was long regarded as the most likely source of the horses that spread to the

Indians of the American West, because the Pueblo Indians liberated thousands of them when they

drove the Spaniards out of New Mexico. So it would seem then that this is the right moment on the

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