Ep. 033

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Dan Flores discusses Paul Martin's book while explaining the 'Blitzkrieg hypothesis' about Pleistocene extinctions in North America. Martin was a paleobiologist at the University of Arizona who argued that human hunters caused rapid extinctions of megafauna.

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Discussed in the context of Audubon's 1843 trip up the Missouri River. Flores mentions this book made Audubon 'a worldwide literary and artistic figure' after its completion in 1838, featuring 435 American birds painted life-size.

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A memoir published in 1905 by buffalo hunter John Cook. Flores discusses this book as the source of the famous (but likely fabricated) story about General Philip Sheridan's speech to the Texas legislature about buffalo hunting. The book was written during the conservation period when buffalo hunters were being criticized.

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Mentioned as a book by Texas buffalo hunter J. Wright Moore, who defended buffalo hunting throughout his life. Moore used to lead parades in his buffalo hunter outfit and argued in his book that the buffalo didn't amount to the value of a single homesteader family.