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Apr 2022
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EP267: Fat Bear Week: Who Will be the Fa...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Lian Law is a ranger at Brooks Camp in Katmai National Park and Preserve, and she’s here to share about Fat Bear Week, where bears compete to be the “Fat Bear Champion”. The grandsons of Dwayne Steinle, the Korean War veteran who founded Dwayne's Photo, tell us the story of the time the world descended upon Parsons, Kansas to get their Kodachrome film developed for the last time. P.J. Hill, rancher and co-author of “The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier,” explains the misunderstanding behind the American West.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Fat Bear Week: Who Will be the Fat Bear Champion of Alaska's Katmai National Park?

10:00 - The Last Days of Kodachrome

35:00 - “The NOT So Wild, Wild West”

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