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Watering the Valley
Development Along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950
Inbunden, 1991
546 kr
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Watering the Valley
Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950
E-bok, 1991
314 kr
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James Earl Sherow contends that a vast network of problems in the arid West has sprung from the mistaken notion that water is a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded. This ill-conceived approach to water development, he argues, has resulted in social problems as well as abuse of the environment. …
Watering the Valley
Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950
E-bok, 2025
314 kr
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James Earl Sherow contends that a vast network of problems in the arid West has sprung from the mistaken notion that water is a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded. This ill-conceived approach to water development, he argues, has resulted in social problems as well as abuse of the environment. …
Chisholm Trail Volume 3
Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble
Inbunden, 2018
441 kr
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One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail - …
Chisholm Trail Volume 3
Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble
Häftad, 2025
237 kr
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One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns coming up the Chisholm …
Railroad Empire across the Heartland
Rephotographing Alexander Gardner''s Westward Journey
E-bok, 2014
484 kr
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Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later the Kansas Pacific Railroad), across Kansas beginning in 1867. This book presents recent photographs by John R. Charlton of the scenes Gardner recorded, …
Grasslands of the United States
An Environmental History
Av James E. Sherow, Mark R. Stoll
Inbunden, 2007
1134 kr
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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."Treeless, level, and semi-arid." Walter Prescott Webb's famous description of the Great Plains is …
Grasslands of the United States
An Environmental History
Av James E. Sherow, Mark R. Stoll
E-bok, 2007
1207 kr
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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. "Treeless, level, and semi-arid." Walter Prescott Webb's famous description of the Great Plains is …
Sense of the American West
An Environmental History Anthology
Av James E. Sherow, James E. Sherow
Inbunden, 1998
352 kr
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This anthology collects fourteen essays on the environmental history of the American West, exploring diverse approaches to environmental history, the western environment before Anglo-American settlement, the radical environmental transformations of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and …
Railroad Empire Across the Heartland
Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey
Häftad, 2014
395 kr
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Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later the Kansas Pacific Railroad), across Kansas beginning in 1867. This book presents recent photographs by John R. Charlton of the scenes Gardner recorded, …
