The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History

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    The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History Author: Editor: Mark R. Stoll Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: ABC-CLIO
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    Pages: 389 Illustrations and other contents: 42 Illustrations Language: English ISBN: 9781851097203 Categories: ,

    This unique survey of the environmental history of the grasslands in the United States explores the ecological, social, and economic networks enmeshing humans in this biome over the last 10,000 years. * 44 pages of original documents such as the Homestead Act (1862) and the Taylor Grazing Act (1934), Yellow Wolf’s concerns with the disappearance of bison (1847), testimony of Kiowas as they sought to protect their reservation, to excerpts from Ron Arnold, one of the main advocates of the Wise Use Movement * Each chapter and case study comes complete with corresponding illustrations, maps, charts, or tables

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    "The book should be a useful addition to environmental collections in most public and acadmic libraries." - ARBA

    Author Biography

    James E. Sherow is professor of history at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. His published works include Watering the Valley and A Sense of the American West: An Anthology of Environmental History. He is the recipient of the Phi Alpha Theta/Westerners International Prize for the best dissertation on the history of the American West.