Explore " american west" with insightful episodes like "Short Suck #2 - Grizzly Bear vs Mountain Man: The Story of Hugh Glass", "Ep 75 - Frontier Chronicles: Lewis and Clark's Quest for the West", "LISTEM: Ford CEO’s Road Trip Shows Challenges of EV Travel", "The Aquifer" and "The Miners Who Fooled Millionaires: The Great Diamond Hoax" from podcasts like ""Timesuck with Dan Cummins", "Doomed to Fail", "IEN Radio", "As She Rises" and "Criminalia"" and more!
Today's Short Suck is all about the life of Hugh Glass - the man whose insane story of surviving a Grizzly Bear attack inspired the 2015 Leonardo DiCaprio film, The Revenant. Hope you enjoy! And have a great weekend!
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Welcome explorers!! Today, let's go west with Lewis and Clark (and everyone they brought, including the child bride & new mom, Sacagawea). We'll start with Thomas Jefferson's big idea and end with Meriweather Lewis's suicide upon his return. Did you know that the story of Lewis and Clark was mainly forgotten until the 1970s? Now, every schoolchild in America knows them!
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On August 7, Ford CEO Jim Farley announced on LinkedIn that he would take a road trip across the American West in the automaker’s F-150 Lightning.
Farley explained that the purpose of the trip was to visit researchers, businesses, dealers, salespeople, EV conversion shops and EV drivers to gain insights that could advance Ford’s electric vehicle division. Highlights on the tour included stops in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Las Vegas and an encounter with actor Dwayne Johnson.
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Black Mesa is a high desert, arid, with few streams or rivers aboveground. Water tends to come from above or below: sometimes, as a gentle rain. Other times, a rushing monsoon. Navajo and Hopi people have called it home for thousands of years. Its water reservoirs— a complex system of underground pools called “aquifers”— sustain people, livestock, and agriculture on the plateau. More recently, that scarce resource fed the needs of Peabody Coal, an extractive industry that drained the Mesa dry over the last half century.
Nicole Horseherder helped establish the non-profit Sacred Water Speaks with a clear goal: get Peabody Energy off the aquifer and bring water back to her community. Amber McCrary reads “Monsoon Musings,” a poem she wrote about the moments when heavy rains arrive in her desert homeland.
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During the 19th century it seemed like the American West held endless possibilities for great wealth, and Americans were looking for that next big thing. Two Kentucky swindlers, taking advantage of gemstone fever, lured some of the country's biggest bankers and businnessmen -- and the founder of Tiffany & Co. -- into a jewel con with claims of having discovered a large deposit of diamonds. The value of their diamond mine would have exceeded $86 million in today's money. If it had been real.
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In this episode, Wes and Todd sit down with Photographer, Barbara Van Cleve. Barbara discusses cowboy coffee, Montana and the Crazy Mountains, her family history, the Lazy K Bar Ranch, horses, her youth, her education, being a college professor, her beginnings in photography, Baja California, black & white photography, color photography, adobe walls, abstraction, Montana skies, spotting prints, equipment, photographing on horseback, Ranch Women, connecting to your subject, nude photography, zoom lenses, galleries, museum exhibitions, printing, shooting what moves you, her archives, workshops, the documentary “Barbara Van Cleve’s American West”, her books, ranching, work, and the solid virtues of honesty and integrity.
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In the previous episode [The Donner Party Part 1] Dawn and her guest, Andy Kraft climbed aboard with The Donner Party wagon-train as they begin their ill-fated journey West. We met some of the most prominent individuals including George Donner - after whom the sad collective is named. Also James Reed, who tragically murdered his friend, John Snyder and was subsequently banished. He left, promising his wife and children he would do everything he could to be reunited and save them.
00:05:30 - When we left off, The Donner Party had just reunited with the hero, C.T. Stanton - a single, childless man who had ridden ahead of the party months earlier to get help and supplies. His return provided much needed food and comfort, but it proved to be yet another nail in the coffin as it delayed their attempt to cross the summit before a huge snow storm.
00:11:07 - After several attempts to cross the summit with the mules, the Party realizes that they simply cannot make the passing the snow. Instead, they will be slaughtered in the morning, the meat prepared - and then they're all going out on foot before the snow comes... but that very night a snow storm begins that lasts 8 days. The animals are dead and lost beneath the snow and everyone is suddenly oh-so-much more desperate.
They're divided into two camps about seven miles apart from one another. Sixty are at Truckee Lake - nine men over eighteen, twelve women, and twenty-nine were children, six of whom were toddlers or younger. The other camp, at Alder Creek, has twenty-one people: six men, three women, and twelve children in all.
00:17:38 - Realizing that the situation was going to lead to inevitable starvation, they decided that the strongest individuals among them would make snowshoes, and attempt to walk to Sutter's Fort in California. If they could make it, they would raise the alarm and return with help. Some call them "The Snowshoe Party", others "The Forlorn Hope". There were fifteen of them: five women, nine men and one twelve-year old boy.
00:29:52 - It has been mutually determined among the members of The Forlorn Hope that starvation was imminent and that 'should one of them die, the others might live.' They were the first among The Donner Party to resort to cannibalism when: "“The men finally mustered up the courage to approach the dead”.
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00:38:20 - The First Relief Party arrives at Donner Lake on February 1847. It’s bad. Of the sixty-five people who were left there when The Forlorn Hope left (two months prior), thirteen people have died, leaving about thirty survivors. They have not *apparently* started eating each other yet. Twenty-one leave with the rescuers: six adults, six children under ten-years-old, nine children who are ten-fourteen-years-old.
They have a hell of a trek to safety and three die on the way back. One adult (John Denton), Ada Keseberg (3), William Hook (12, fatally gorges himself when they finally get to food.
0042:30 - Incredibly James Reed meets the First Relief Party as they're returning and not only reunites with his wife, but provides them much-needed supplies after their caches were destroyed. He then continues back down to Donner Lake only to discover a scene significantly more disastrous than when last they were contacted.
The Second Relief takes with them seventeen people: three adults, two teenagers, and twelve children between nine and one-year-olds. On the way back, three people die, two five-year-old children and a forty-year-old woman. Most of the children are carried out by one guy - John Stark.
01:02:14 -After two more relief parties, the last group to go to Donner lake, are less of a relief, than a 'retrieve'. They arrive on April 10th - It had been a month since the 3rd Relief had left.
The first thing they see - there are bodies and body parts EVERYWHERE: Skulls, legs, fragments. Mrs. Murphy is lying there with a leg sawed off and the saw still lying next to her. Mrs. Donner is dead and partly devoured in Keseberg’s Cabin, but he is gone and they see a fresh set of tracks leading to the Donner Cabin. Soon, Keseberg is found walking back carrying much of the Donner’s money.
01:06:06 - Here is the final head-count (so to speak) of the survivors and victims of the Party: Of the 87 who took the notorious Cut-off, about 42 died. What do you think of those odds?
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Dawn's guest is actor and writer, Andy Kraft. He is a longtime friend and colleague - together they've done everything from romantic comedies on screen, to portraying water droplets on stage. Andy can be seen in countless commercials, episodes of television (including the final episode of Brooklyn nine-nine) and is the hand up the bum of some of your favorite puppets!
00:07:44 - Andy explains why he chose the subject of The Donner Party.His total ignorance of the subject (is it NOT the Dahmer Party?) ultimately made it the HILF of the day and, of course, Dawn loves a History Virgin.
00:13:36 - The Donner Party began, as almost all wagon trains going West did at the time - on the Oregon Trail. This infamous trail inspired a similarly infamous game that was very popular in the mid 80's... if you didn't die, you won! But you probably died... There is a new version of the game for Switch, if you can believe it.
00:18:53 - The Who-is-who of The Donner Party: We are introduced to the people who begin with the wagon train in Missouri, what brought them there, and what there expectations were going forward. Everything starts out fairly well with Mrs. Donner even writing a letter home that says, "“Indeed, if I do not experience something far worse than I have yet done, I shall say the trouble is all in getting started.”
00:23:50 - Because things are going so well as they set out, the Donner Party begins to take interest in a rumor of a shortcut. The so-called Hastings Cut-off, purported by legendary frontiersman, Lansford Hastings, proves a tempting option. Ultimately they take a vote and about 90 of the party take the road oh-so-much less traveled.
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00:32:07 - In October of 1846, The Donner Party finds themselves weeks behind schedule and with an increasingly hazardous route unfolding before them. After cutting paths through thick brush and hard terrain, they then face the crossing of The Great Salt Dessert - and they already are running out of food and water. See the map!
00:37:04 - In light of how FUCKING BAD things are going, the group selects two individuals, Stanton and McCutchen, to ride ahead to California to alert them to their plight and possibly bring back help and supplies. Shortly after they leave, things progressively get worse for everybody - and then there is the first murder.
00:39:39 - Dawn gives the details of the murder of John Snyder and the resulting exile of James Reed.
00:53:38 - There is the first death by starvation/exposure (Hardcoop) and one disappearance and suspected murder (Wolfinger). Just as the party is beginning to really accept the possibility that all is lost, Stanton returns! Not only does he have much-needed supplies, but he is also in the company of two Indian guides to lead them the rest of the way.
The Donner Party takes a sigh of relief - but it turns out the worst had only just begun...
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Tom describes a near-perfect day in the beeyard. Laura asks, “Will there be a Season 2?”
“This beeyard has long been one of my favorites under any conditions, but on this particular day, it was absolutely mesmerizing. It's great to be a beekeeper, great to be alive.”
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Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
Tom Theobald remembers his guiding days in the Flat Tops Wilderness. Tom and Laura chat about Lulu, miller moths and "bear" stew.
"Among the guests that evening, there were visions of steaming dishes filled with claws and hair and knowing glances shot between the regulars . . . "
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Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
In this live interview from the 19th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference in Sheridan, Wyoming, we talk with John Sutton and Chris Warren about Hemingway's summers spent in Wyoming and Montana and how his experiences in the American West left their mark on his stories and novels.
John Sutton is the director of the NEH “Creating Humanities Communities along Wyoming's Hemingway Highway” Grant project. Chris Warren is the author of Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country.
During this interview, we explore the lack of critical attention on Hemingway's time in this part of the U.S.; friendships he made (and the friends he invited) out west; his likening of Wyoming to Spain, and Spain to Africa; key locations, such as Spear-O-Wigwam, L Bar T, Pilot, Index, and much more; and, of course, numerous novels and stories, including A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio," and "A Man of the World."
Tom tells an entertaining story. Tom and Laura chat about Notes from the Beeyard.
Like some reptiles, this critter feeds infrequently and Sunday is the day. A favorite of many of my friends, it holds a strange appeal for me as well, and yet I often find it intimidating, threatening, even dangerous.
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Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
Craig Johnson, author of the widely celebrated Longmire series, shares his one true sentence from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
Tom Theobald addresses pesticides. Tom and Laura chat about the challenges of keeping bees near agriculture.
“Our day is neither ending nor beginning, merely pausing as we enter the warm cafe for breakfast. We have been up since 2:00 A.M., closing in two yards of bees and after a good meal we will stop briefly at home . . ."
CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
In the lead-up to the Hemingway Society conference in Wyoming and Montana, we welcome Darla Worden to explore some fascinating connections between Hemingway and the American West.
Worden is the author of the book Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming Summers with Pauline. She's also the founder and director of the Left Bank Writers Retreat in Paris and the Wyoming Writers Retreat.
Although we may not associate Hemingway with the American West, Worden describes the importance of Hemingway's summers in Wyoming in the late 20s and 30s, his writing of A Farewell to Arms, his time with his second wife Pauline, and his love of the outdoors. Worden uses these Wyoming days to examine Hemingway's evolving persona, the complexities of his marriage and fatherhood, and the way Wyoming factors into his fiction. We even get the chance to discuss the obscure story from Winner Take Nothing, "Wine of Wyoming"!
Tom Theobald explains why it’s important to educate people about agriculture. Tom and Laura chat about the city mouse/country mouse situation in Boulder County, Colorado.
“It’s easy to talk about the philosophy of farming. It’s more difficult to accept the economic restrictions that it brings. Particularly if you live in a county that’s adjacent to a metropolitan area . . ."
CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
Tom Theobald extolls an elegant solution. Tom and Laura chat about banking queens.
"I had a significant financial investment in these queens and I didn’t want any of those queens to fail because I didn’t get them into the colonies as quickly as I should . . ."
CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
Tom Theobald considers his place in the world. Tom and Laura chat about the Left Hand Grange and being part of a community.
"Beekeeping is more than a profession. It was a profession for me, but it was more than that. It was an expression of my view of the world and my place in it . . ."
CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
Tom acknowledges the promise of spring and makes a dire prediction.
"The promises aren’t always realized, but that’s what we build our lives on. The promise that when we plant things, they’re going to come up, and we’ll have enough water for them to mature . . ."
CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
Tom Theobald tells a story about a chicken tending dog named Pye. Tom and Laura chat about parental feelings.
"I wasn’t sure what was going to happen when we opened in the incubator. But clearly Pye’s interest in these chicks was as a protector . . ."
CREDITS
Producer: Laura Tyler
Author: Tom Theobald
Editor: Andy Schwarz
Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0
Logo Design: Janet Cerretani
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