The American Southwest

In 1776, two Spanish Friars led a team of 10 men throughout the American Southwest and covered more ground unknown to Europeans than even Lewis & Clark. Their goal was to reach California. In this episode of The American Southwest Podcast, I lay the groundwork for the expedition and cover some history of the Spanish Southwest up to that point, and especially since the reconquest of New Mexico.

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 3rd in the series about the Spanish and the Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the 1692 Reconquest of the Territory of New Mexico after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. I discuss the battles, the peoples, and most importantly, the Spanish leader of the Reconquest, a Spaniard named Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon y Contreras. The last male descendant in the Noble Vargas line of Madrid.

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 2nd in the series about the Spanish and the Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. I discuss Popay, Poseyemu, Otermín, the revolution, and the first few Spanish attempts at retaking the territory. It's chock full of great stuff about everyone involved using as much of the record that's been preserved for us.

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 1st in the series about the Spanish and the Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the Spanish Discovery, Exploration of, & Conquering of the territory of New Mexico and the lands adjacent. I discuss Esteban, Coronado, The Seven Golden Cities of Cibola, The Last Conquistador that is Oñate, The Puebloans, the Church, & a whole lot more. It also sets up the factors and reasons behind the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, which will be covered in the next episode. This is a long one, but it’s exciting, engaging, and chock full of Land of Enchantment history, stories, quotes, & more.

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 8th in the series about the original Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the Puebloans of the Rio Grande Valley, Zuni, Hopi Mesas, and others after the Anasazi Civil War and the Great Migration at the end of the 13th Century. The episode begins by defining the region as the Spanish would have seen it, despite the episode covering the time period spanning hundreds of years before that. It covers the migration of tens of thousands of Ancestral Puebloans out of the Mesa Verde Region and into the area around modern day Santa Fe, with a few stragglers heading to Jemez, Hopi, and Zuni. Expansion, starvation, war, art, migration, language, the boom and bust cycle of the pueblo, belief systems, and the Kachinas are all discussed. I hate to say this is an in-between episode… but it’s sort of a Epilogue to the Anasazi Civil War and Migration and Prologue to the coming Pueblo Revolt Episode. But I assure you there is enough exciting, interesting, intriguing, and engaging topics in this episode to be an over 2 hour standalone episode by itself. Again, calling it an in-between is really doing the piece a disservice. I know y’all will enjoy this in-depth study of the amazing people of the Puebloan world and their beliefs and history.

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 7th in the series about the original Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the migration of the Anasazi from the Four Corners region after the Anasazi Civil War down the Chaco Meridian to Northern Mexico and beyond. It discusses their interactions with the local Sinagua, Mogollon, Salado, Hohokam, and Paquime peoples they come into contact with and the destruction of burned pueblos, corn, and humans that they leave in their wake. It also discusses the possible origins of the Anasazi and the possible final iterations of that mysterious group of people after the Spanish arrive.

This episode of the American Southwest Podcast is the 6th in the series about the original Native American inhabitants of the region and specifically about the Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloan Civil War that rocked the Four Corners area during the Chaco Aztec collapse in the 1200s that led to the eventual abandonment of the entire region. There's lots of gore, cannibalism, explorers, Mesa Verde, Migrations, Navajo stories, and more!

This episode is about the neighbors of the Anasazi that inhabited the American Southwest during the rise, reign, and fall of Chaco. It includes the people known as the Hohokam, Mogollon, and the Fremont.

An historical podcast about The Anasazi People of Chaco Canyon and the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest. Thomas discusses the people's ritual way of life, their form of government, some of their artwork, their economy, monumental architecture, artifacts, history, and the period just before the Anasazi Spiral unravels and they "disappear".

This is a historical podcast about the people of the southwest before the Anasazi and Chaco from the end of the Paleoindian period through the Archaic, Basketmaker II, Basketmaker III, and into the very beginning of the Pueblo I period. It covers the climatic changes, the introduction of corn, beans, the bow and arrow, pit houses, and the introduction of ideas from Central America.

An Update to the direction of the American Southwest Podcast & a discussion on the Bone Smashing Marrow Sucking Culture associated with the Cerutti Mastodon.

A look at Pleistocene North America

This is the Fourth and Final Episode on the Buffalo Soldiers and it discusses their time as stewards of our National Parks and the 25th Infantry Buffalo Soldiers Bicycle Corps of 1897 in Yellowstone National Park.

This is the Third Episode on the Buffalo Soldiers and it discusses the leaders, troopers, exploits, and stories of the Tenth Cavalry from the 1860s to the 1890s in the Greater Southwest Region of the US. It includes Roman Nose, the Texas Rangers, a train robbery, and more.

This episode covers the Buffalo Soldiers of the Ninth Cavalry from the 1860s through the 1890s as they work in the Greater Southwest Region of the US.

First of four episodes covering the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry during the 50 year period after the Civil War

This is Part two of the series on Black Americans in the western United States. It covers cowboys from South Carolina to the Wild and Wooly West from the 1700s to the early 1900s.

A brief but exciting and fun history of African Americans in the western United States.

This is the sad, sometimes gruesome, but ultimately fun and rewarding story of the Bison in The United States of America.

An introduction to me and your first steps towards exploring the American Southwest.