The Greater Plains : rethinking a region's environmental histories /
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Durée
- 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
- Geneviève Susemihl
- Part 2. Animals on the Great Plains
- 5. Kinscapes and the Buffalo Chase: The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Plains Métis 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.