The Joe Rogan

Logan Experience

Train by day Joe Rogan Podcast all day.

Oh sir. Oh, thanks for doing this, really appreciate it.

You're quite welcome. I really enjoyed you on the Meat Eater

podcast and that's why I reached out and I started reading your the book on the Nes Perce and then I picked this up as well.

Continental Reckoning.

That is, that's a hell of a book.

That's a big book. How long did it take you to write this? The writing probably

eight to ten years, the research and so forth, more than 20 years, yeah. Wow. Yeah, Yeah long time. So this is a lifetime of work.

Continental Reckoning, the American West in the age of expansion, one of the most

fascinating subjects I think in the history of the human race.

I mean it is just such it's such an amazing story and such a tragic story and such a crazy story of the amount of change that took place over a relatively

short period of time. Yeah, 30 years. Yeah and how little most people

really understand about the actual history of the Native Americans

and that. One of the things that was most fascinating about the Media or

Podcast was that at the time that Lewis and Clark had come to America, a hundred years

before that, there had been Native Americans that had traveled to France and

met with the King. That's right. That's right. Yep. Yep. Yep.

That's right. 18 or 1720s. There was a group of native people from Kansas, Missouri area, and they had been accorded by the French

because the French wanted to expand their fur trade into that area, up the Missouri

River. So the, and the Spanish had recently suffered a terrible military defeat

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