Ep. 385: A Wild New World

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Dan Flores mentions this book as inspiration for his approach to 'Wild New World.' He describes it as 'a big history book about the origin of humans' that he and others have read.

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The main book being discussed in the podcast. Subtitle is 'an epic story of animals and people in America.' Dan Flores is the guest promoting this new book about North American wildlife and human history over 66 million years.

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Published in 1906 by a former buffalo hunter. Dan discusses this memoir as the source of the conspiracy theory that the government deliberately killed buffalo to subjugate Native Americans.

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Dan references this book when discussing the buffalo extinction narrative, noting that it doesn't contain the government conspiracy theory that later became popular.

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Described as John McFee's 'phenomenal trilogy on American geology.' Steve references a quote from it where McFee says if he had to sum up the book in one sentence, it would be 'the top of Mount Everest is a marine limestone.'