The West seems to fascinate the world in a way no other American region can touch.

Why can you get your John Wayne fix on TV at any sleepless 3 a.m.?

Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful?

How to shoe stores sell $5,000 cowboy boots that'll never see a stirrup.

And what 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 Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network,

hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores,

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 Pleistocene 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 Dr. Randall Williams and bestselling author and meat eater founder

Stephen Ronella. I'll correct my kids now and then where 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. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th 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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