The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History (Nature and Human Societies) - Hardcover

Sherow, James E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851097201 ISBN 13: 9781851097203

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2007

Synopsis

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

About this title

Book Description:

The Grasslands of the United States. No other natural environment has enjoyed such a revered status in the history of the North American continent. From Texas to North Dakota, throughout the desert grasslands of the Great Basin, the tallgrass prairies of the Flint Hills, the lands where buffalo once roamed remain a powerful symbol of all that is America, yet they are one of the most endangered ecosystems on the continent.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1851097201
• ISBN 13: 9781851097203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Stoll Mark R.