The Greater Plains : Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories /

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"The Greater Plains tells a new story of a region, stretching from the state of Texas to the province of Alberta, where the environments are as varied as the myriad ways people have inhabited them. These innovative essays document a complicated history of human interactions with a sometimes ple...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Brosnan, Kathleen A., 1960- (Editor ), Frehner, Brian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Natural history.
Human ecology.
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Natural history > Great Plains.
Human ecology > Great Plains.
Great Plains.
Great Plains > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan
  • Part 1. Indigenous Grassland Adaptations over the Longue Duree
  • 1. Before the Horse: Indigenous Food Systems on the Plains, 1300-1680
  • Natale Zappia
  • 2. Travois Trails: Mobile Lifeways of Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Women
  • Leila Monaghan
  • 3. Bison Hunters and Prairie Fires: A View from the Northwestern Plains
  • María Nieves Zedeño, Christopher Roos, Kacy Hollenback, and Mary Hagen Erlick
  • 4. To Know the Story behind It: Aboriginal Heritage and Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
  • Genevieve Susemihl
  • Part 2. Animals on the Great Plains
  • 5. Kinscapes and the Buffalo Chase: The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Plains Metis Hunting Brigades
  • Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall
  • 6. Fauna and Flux on the Plains' Edge: Animal Kinship, Place Making, and Cherokee Relational Continuity
  • Clint Carroll
  • 7. Bison and Bookkeeping: Accounting for an Environmental Imagination in Great Plains Trading Posts
  • George Colpitts
  • 8. An Uncommon Nuisance: Cattle Feeding, Nuisance Complaints, and Legal Remedies on the Southern Plains
  • Jacob A. Blackwell
  • Part 3. Modern Agriculture and the Transformation of the Plains
  • 9. Measuring Expertise: Ralph Parshall and Watershed Management, 1920-1940
  • Michael Weeks
  • 10. A "Plow to Save the Plains": Conservation Tillage on the North American Grasslands, 1938-1973
  • Joshua Nygren
  • 11. From Wheat to Wheaties: Minneapolis, the Great Plains, and the Transformation of American Food
  • Michael J. Lansing
  • 12. "Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries": Settler Society Agricultural Adaptation in the Great Plains Northwest
  • Molly P. Rozum
  • Part 4. Energy Landscapes
  • 13. Energy Heartland: How the Midcontinent Pipeline System Fueled and Fouled the Great Plains
  • Philip A. Wight
  • 14. Places of Overburden: Strip Mining and Reclamation on the Northern Great Plains
  • Ryan Driskell Tate
  • 15. Encountering Oil Cultures in a Prairie Town
  • Jonathan Peyton and Matthew Dyce
  • 16. Blows Like Hell: The Windy Plains of the West
  • Julie Courtwright
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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