In this episode, we explore the bloody prequel to the civil war. Picture the modern map of the United States. You know the one. Yeah, just that classic map we all have in our heads. Right. Focus your mind on those really sprawling, iconic landscapes of the West and Southwest, like we're talking about California, Texas, Nevada. Utah. Exactly, Utah. They feel just entirely permanent, right? Like they've always just been there neatly outlined and colored in. Oh, absolutely. Like it's just a given. But I want you to take that image and just completely shatter it. Yeah. Because that map. The one we take for granted literally every day was actually carved out in just two short years. Which is incredibly fast for that much land. It is. And it was done through this brutal, highly controversial and honestly largely forgotten conflict. the Mexican -American W ...