Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri
Awards:   Commended for Spur Awards (Nonfiction-Contemporary) 2004
Author:   Robert Kelley Schneiders
Publisher:   University Press of Kansas
ISBN:  

9780700612642


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   31 October 2003
Format:   Hardback
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  • Commended for Spur Awards (Nonfiction-Contemporary) 2004

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Author:   Robert Kelley Schneiders
Publisher:   University Press of Kansas
Imprint:   University Press of Kansas
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9780700612642


ISBN 10:   0700612645
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   31 October 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

The Upper Missouri; Bison world; Buffalo people; Explorers beyond the Platte - Lewis and Clark and the Upper Missouri; In search of place - the Sioux, Euro-America, and the Upper Missouri;To the horizon - the Teton Sioux move west; A hydraulic empire - the corps and reclamation service in the Upper Missouri; Try and try again - schemes to dam the Yellowstone; Vanishing act - Pick, Sloan, the Upper Missouri, and Yellowstone; The world we have wrought - the Upper Missouri in contemporary perspective.

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-An important and provocative study of how human aspiration and cultural power changed a bioregion in North America. Evocatively written and conceived, it forces readers to consider broad implications of recent manipulations of the environment.---William Lang, editor of Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River -An exemplary bioregional history that is well researched and well written.---Dan Flores, author of The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains


An exemplary bioregional history that is well researched and well written.


An exemplary bioregional history that is well researched and well written. �An important and provocative study of how human aspiration and cultural power changed a bioregion in North America. Evocatively written and conceived, it forces readers to consider broad implications of recent manipulations of the environment.�--William Lang, editor of Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River �An exemplary bioregional history that is well researched and well written.�--Dan Flores, author of The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains An important and provocative study of how human aspiration and cultural power changed a bioregion in North America. Evocatively written and conceived, it forces readers to consider broad implications of recent manipulations of the environment. --William Lang, editor of Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River An exemplary bioregional history that is well researched and well written. --Dan Flores, author of The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains


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