The natural west
Subtitle: environmental history in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
By: by Dan Flores
Edition: Red River books ed.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780806181073
Subjects: State & Local; Human ecology; History; HISTORY
Notes: "Red River books."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-272) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: An art of people and place; title: Nature's children : environmental history as human natural history; title: The ecology of the Red River in 1806 : Peter Custis and early Suthwestern natural history; title: Bison ecology and bison diplomacy redux : another look at the Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850; title: Dreams and beasts : the grizzly and the West; title: Place : thinking about bioregional history; title: Islands in the desert : the Rocky Mountains in environmental history; title: Zion in Eden : phases of the environmental history of Utah; title: The Rocky Mountain West : fragile space, diverse place; title: A long love affair with an uncommon country : environmental history and the future of the Great Plains; title: The West that was, and West that can be : western restoration and the twenty-first century.