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Ep. 08: Beyond the Earth’s Curve, Mysteries

Ep. 08: Beyond the Earth’s Curve, Mysteries

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Despite an ancient Native inhabitation and recent European
settlements and forays around the perimeter of the West, in the
early 19th century much of the interior West was still a place of
conjecture, rumor, and mystery. What was out there? What kind of
never-known phenomena did the West hold? For the brand-new United
States and its Indian Agents, winning the western tribes with
trade was essential geopolitics. But as happened with John
Colter’s “Hell,” the future Yellowstone Park, those traders often
returned with accounts that were hard to believe. Like Colter and
in the same years, a trader named Anthony Glass in the southern
West convinced the Comanche and Wichita Indians to reveal to him
an astounding western mystery that excited the Southwestern
frontier for three decades. Hauled to civilization, it would
stand as one of America’s most intriguing contributions to global
science from the early West.

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