S8 Ep661: 7. Wealthy Europeans initiated destructive safaris, treating the West like a private killing field. Despite myths, Phil Sheridan later sought to protect wildlife, while the Boone and Crockett Club pioneered conservation. (7)
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
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7. Wealthy Europeans initiated destructive safaris, treating the Westlike a private killing field. Despite myths, Phil Sheridan later sought to protect wildlife, while the Boone and Crockett Club pioneered conservation. (7)
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| 0:34.7 | I'm John Bastrop with Professor Dan Flores. |
| 0:37.3 | The book is Wild New World, the epic story of animals and people in America. |
| 0:42.5 | The man's name is Sir William Drummond Stewart. |
| 0:45.8 | He began a safari, a luxurious safari in the West, middle of the 19th century. |
| 0:52.8 | And what results from it is a massacre of animals, |
| 0:57.7 | not only in excess of what you need to eat, but really what it looks like is serial killing, |
| 1:04.1 | a mass massacre that has no justification in human history. |
| 1:10.4 | The reason I mention him is that he's not alone, |
| 1:13.7 | but you go on to detail, and I'm not going to read how much he took. |
| 1:17.1 | He becomes a model for the other adventures who come in the latter part of the century |
| 1:21.9 | when the railroad makes it available to reach Montana or to reach Colorado. |
| 1:27.4 | Was there any chastising of, of Stuart, |
| 1:31.8 | when they read about him back east or when they read about him in Europe? Anybody say, |
| 1:36.3 | why are you doing this? I don't find any evidence that anyone confronted William Drummond Stewart |
| 1:43.6 | or St. George Gore or any of the other, |
| 1:48.0 | usually nobleman from Ireland or Great Britain, who regarded the American West, particularly the Great Plains part of the American West, |
| 1:59.5 | which was our analog of the Serengeti or the Maasai Mara as this destination to sheet animals. |
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