The American West

Ep. 25: Thinking About Big History in One Western Place

April 7 · 52 min · Season 1 · 50.4 MB
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A road trip with Steven Rinella across the High Plains to the Blackwater Draw Unesco Site on the border of Texas and New Mexico leads to an assessment of 13,000 years of change in one western environment, where people have practiced every kind of life way from hunting elephants to turning the plains into cotton fields and oil country.

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