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🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Born a slave in the 1850s, George McJunkin became an accomplished cowboy under the most trying of circumstances. He was self educated and had a life-long thirst for knowledge of the natural world. His life was wrought with accomplishment, as well as tragedy and injustice. In 1908, he discovered what would become the Folsom archeological site. On this episode we’ll mine into the old cowboys life to be inspired by who he was, be introduced to one of the most spectacular Bison kill sites ever found, and learn how a freed slave revealed this archeological find to the world without ever knowing it.
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0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Janice Patelis. |
0:01.4 | And I'm Jordan Bud. |
0:02.5 | Jordan and I have spent our lives in the outdoors, both as hunters and professional guys. |
0:08.6 | And on Meet Eaters newest podcast, Gear Talk, we're taking the ultimate deep dive into the tools and gear we rely on in the field, |
0:15.9 | seeing the natural season. |
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0:36.9 | He clearly had a lot of social tack and self-confidence that probably was unusual. |
0:43.2 | His dad instilled it in him and then he was able to go on and make a legend out of himself by being the kind of person that he was. |
0:53.2 | On this episode of the Beargreese podcast, we're exploring the life of an extraordinary human who overcame the social norms of his time to become a Hall of Fame cowboy. |
1:04.5 | And when he discovered a bone in the dirt that rewrote human history, he became a legend. |
1:11.4 | But he would never know it. |
1:13.7 | His life was wrought with peculiar accomplishments but shadowed by tragedy. |
1:19.2 | I'm in search of justice for this man's legacy and we're going right to the place where he lived to interview the men who now call him family, though he had none. |
1:29.9 | I want us all to meet George McJunkan. |
1:34.1 | You always had that wonder where we come from, where, you know, why are there people here? It's a shame that he didn't really fully realize what discovered. |
1:51.6 | My name is Clay Nukem and this is the Beargreese podcast where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant. |
1:58.9 | Search for insight in unlikely places and where we'll tell the story of Americans who live their lives close to the land. |
2:07.8 | Presented by FHF Gear, American-made purpose-built hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore. |
2:26.0 | Matt, tell me where we're at. |
2:28.4 | I was this. |
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