Peter Stark - Gallop Toward the Sun
A Book with Legs
Smead Capital Management
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
New York Times Best Selling author Peter Stark makes his second appearance on the podcast, this time to discuss his book Gallop Toward the Sun. Peter’s book highlights the widely unfamiliar conflict between Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison. The conversation covers how the two men became exceptional leaders, why a struggle between local politics and a young federal government shaped westward expansion, and Tecumseh’s eagerness to defend indigenous land and his people’s way of life.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management. |
| 0:08.0 | At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who fear stock market failure. |
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| 0:26.0 | Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead. I'm the CEO and a portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers and book junkies. It can be said |
| 0:31.1 | that leaders are readers and we believe books provide us a great source of information for filtering |
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| 0:43.6 | This podcast is for readers, thinkers, business-minded people and investors who want to grow their |
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| 1:01.5 | Joining us for this episode is a returning guest who will cause your imagination and your trip itinerary |
| 1:07.4 | to change as you seek out the vast history of the U.S. beyond the eastern seaboard. |
| 1:12.9 | Peter Stark is joining us to talk about his recently published book, Gallup Toward the Sun, |
| 1:17.4 | Tecumseh, and William Henry Harrison's struggle for the destiny of a nation. |
| 1:21.5 | A little bit about Peter. First off, for our audience, Peter joined us in episode six last year |
| 1:27.1 | to talk about his prior book Astoria, |
| 1:29.3 | John Jacob Astor, and the Lost Pacific Empire. Peter is an adventure and exploration writer and historian. |
| 1:34.7 | He has also authored Young Washington his 2018 book. A longtime correspondent for outside magazine, |
| 1:40.0 | Stark's articles and essays have also appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, the New York Times |
| 1:44.5 | Magazine, Men's Journal, and many others. Mr. Stark is a New York Times bestselling author |
| 1:48.5 | and a finalist for a Penn USA Literary Award. I'm also very personally proud to, as I said, |
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