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How far was Jefferson willing to go to settle a scientific argument? Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood relates the tale of the earnest and quixotic effort to provide the world's greatest naturalist, France's Comte de Buffon, with an American Moose.

(Originally presented as part of a 2006 podcast from on Environmental Hazards, 18th-Century Style.)