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Ep. 05: The Wild New World of the American Serengeti

Ep. 05: The Wild New World of the American Serengeti

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In the early 1800s, when American and European scientific
explorers first began to probe the unfamiliar West with its
landscapes and animals so remarkably different from those of the
East, the Great Plains and its wildlife seemed the most
fascinating part of the West, an “American Serengeti.” Commencing
with Lewis and Clark’s adventures and their attempts to catalog
western wildlife, it took the entire 19th century for American
explorers to introduce to science the staggering biological
diversity Native America had bequeathed the United States.
Accounts from Lewis and Clark to Stephen Long to C. Hart Merriam
give us inspiring descriptions of what the Natural West was only
two centuries ago.

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