Big sky rivers
Subtitle: the Yellowstone and Upper Missouri
By: Robert Kelley Schneiders.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Yellowstone River Valley -- History.; Indians of North America -- Missouri River Valley -- History.; Natural history -- Yellowstone River Valley.; Natural history -- Missouri River Valley.; Yellowstone River -- History.; Yellowstone River Valley -- History.; Missouri River -- History.; Missouri River Valley -- History.; Yellowstone River Valley -- Environmental conditions.; Missouri River Valley -- Environmental conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Upper Missouri : character and ecology in the early nineteenth century; title: Bison world : migration routes and the Missouri and Yellowstone stems; title: Buffalo people : the influence of bison on indigenous culture, history, and geography; title: Explorers beyond the Platte : Lewis and Clark and early Euro-American history; title: In search of place : the Sioux and Euro-America; title: To the horizon : the Teton Sioux move west; title: A hydraulic empire  : the Corps of Engineers and the Reclamation Service; title: Try and try again : schemes to dam the Yellowstone; title: Vanishing act : Pick, Sloan, the Upper Missouri, and Yellowstone; title: The world we have wrought : current ecological and geographic status of the Upper Missouri.