W. Carter Johnson and Dennis H. Knight have blended the natural and human histories of the Northern Great Plains into a well-illustrated, comprehensive work. Covering a vast period of time, they move from geological developments millions of years ago and the effects of glaciers …
A well-illustrated review of the Northern Great Plains that blends natural history and human history
Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simpli…
Overview: The decline and fall of the bison empire / Geoff Cunfer -- Reviewing an iconic story: environmental history and the demise of the bison / Dan Flores -- People and bison in the ancient past -- A bison's view of landscape and the paleoenvironment / Alwynne B. Beaudoin --…
"The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victi…
"Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined …
Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined p…
"The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Eg…
Presents an oral history of the dust storms that devastated the Great Plains during the Depression, following several families and their communities in their struggle to persevere despite the devastation.
"The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Eg…
"Walter Prescott Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of the Great Plains, and argues that its environment ". . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as …
"Walter Prescott Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of the Great Plains, and argues that its environment ". . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as …
