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Timothy C. Winegard

Timothy C. Winegard

Historian and New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito and The Horse, associate professor of history and men's hockey head coach at Colorado Mesa University.

Sep 7, 2026

6:29
I'd like to ask you how you went from the topic of the First World War to writing a book about the mosquito.
6:42
So the mosquito was my fifth book, as you know, and the horse, my sixth.
6:48
So the ochre, I was, I mean, I remember as a kid watching the ochre crisis on TV, I would have been, you know, 12 or 13 years old.
6:57
And my grandma grew up on the Six Nations Reserve outside Caledonia.
7:02
And my grandpa's from Caledonia.
7:04
And there's a lot of indigenous communities around Sarnia growing up, too.
7:08
So I was kind of immersed in the culture, I guess.

25 MINS LATER

31:41
How did he know this when he looked at it? Did it puzzle him to find this tooth there? So horse

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