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The Great Plains : a fire survey /

"Provides a wide look at plains wildland fire in the 21st century and how it is interconnected with other themes of life and culture in the Midwest"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2017.
Series:To the last smoke / series by Stephen J. Pyne ; volume 5
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Series Preface: To the Last Smoke; Preface to Volume 5; Map of the Great Plains; Prologue: These Once-Conflagrated Prairies; Geographies of Place and Mind; The Fixed and the Fluid: Hard and Soft Geographies of the Plains; Grass: A Pyric Primer; Seasons of Burning: Prairie Fire in American Culture; Plains, Great and Small; Pleistocene Meets Pyrocene; Ecotone; Niobrara; Sandhills; The Nebraska; Loess Hills; Konza; Patch-Burning; Texas Takes on Fire: A Reconnaissance; Outliers; People of the Prairie, People of the Fire; Wichita Mountains; The Blackened Hills.
  • Epilogue: The Great Plains Between Two FiresNote on Sources; Notes; Index.