#170 Guests Paul Andrew Hutton and Henry C. Parke

A GRAND NARRATIVE OF THE AMERICAN WEST 
PAUL ANDREW HUTTON and HENRY C. PARKE CHAT with hosts Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell

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Join us for an engaging conversation with our two guests! PAUL ANDREW HUTTON, award-winning historian and author, joins True West Magazine Film Editor HENRY C. PARKE. 

First, Henry presents his monthly, “Henry’s Western Round-up,” reporting on current Western films and TV shows. Then, we talk with Paul Andrew Hutton about his latest critically acclaimed book on the history of the American frontier, THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY: TRIUMPH, TRAGEDY, and the SHAPING OF THE AMERICAN WEST. The Wall Street Journal named it one of the Top Ten Books of 2025.   

Jim and I must tell you...this is an amazing book - reads like a novel, at times humorous, at times horrifying and heartbreaking, yet so engaging and instructional you won't be able to put it down. In addition to the 7 iconic personalities we met a George Washington we didn't know, along with Dan Morgan, Pontiac, Rebecca Boone and daughters...the list of personalities Paul brings to life goes on and on. If you read nothing else of our nation's factual history during this year of America250 - you must read this!

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Hosts - Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell 
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Aired February 5, 2026