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James E Sherow
The Chisholm Trail follows McCoy's vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post-Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the…
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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…
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James E. Sherow
A New England mind-set has cast a long shadow on the history of Manhattan, Kansas. By 1855, social reformers flocked to build a community in a beautiful valley where the…
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Sherow documents the attempts of the inhabitants of the High Plains section of the Arkansas River Valley to bring the river under control, the waves of new problems that followed…
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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…
Todd M. Kerstetter
From a perspective unusual on the Great Plains - the problem of too much water - Flood on the Tracks offers an intimate portrait of life in the Elkhorn River…
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…
Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, across Kansas beginning in 1867. This book presents recent photographs…
