
A road trip with Steven Rinella across the High Plains to the Blackwater Draw Unesco Site on the border of Texas and New Mexico leads to an assessment of 13,000 years of change in one western environment, where people have practiced every kind of life way from hunting elephants to turning the plains into cotton fields and oil country. ---------------- 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:

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

Coyote: America’s Jackal and Its Roller-Coaster Ride Through History | The American West Ep. 20

A Dream of Bison | The American West Ep. 16

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

Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476

19. The Mongols - Terror of the Steppe

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