
When the U.S. Census announced in 1890 that the Frontier was over, America was plunged into a period of anxiety. As evidenced by the grand Indian photographs of Edward Sheriff Curtis, western nostalgia became a dominant theme of art, film, and pop culture. Another artist of the age, though, showed that the West endures into the modern age. Thank you to our sponsor Velvet Buck: https://www.instagram.com/velvetbuckwine ---------------- Check out the gear the MeatEater Crew uses in the field here: https://store.themeateater.com Follow us: Web: https://www.themeateater.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/meateater Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StevenRinellaMeatEater Chapters:

Thinking About Big History in One Western Place | The American West Ep. 25

Getting Over the Color Green and Learning to Love Badlands | The American West Ep. 24

Golden-Eyed Lightning Rod | The American West Ep. 23

New West, Modern West, Public Lands West | The American West Ep. 22

How You Create a New West, and a New America | The American West Ep. 21

A Western Geography of Hope | The American West Ep. 13

What Really Happened to America’s National Mammal? | The American West Ep. 17

What Schools Don't Teach You About American Indians

A Dream of Bison | The American West Ep. 16

Wolf West | The American West Ep. 14