The Frontier and the freedom it afforded was the shaping influence of the 19th century American West, but life in the Modern West has been formed just as powerfully by the presence of a public lands system American visionaries established a century ago. This is why they did it.
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Ep. 21: How You Create a New West, and a New America
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Ep. 20: Coyote - America’s Jackal and Its Roller-Coaster Ride Through History
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Ep. 19: Shadows of the Frontier
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