Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Part 1. Indigenous Grassland Adaptations over the Longue Durée -- 1. Before the Horse: Indigenous Food Systems on the Plains, 1300-1680 -- Natale Za...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Frehner, Brian (HerausgeberIn), Brosnan, Kathleen A. 1960- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lincoln University of Nebraska Press [2021]
Schlagworte:	Human ecology / Great Plains Natural history / Great Plains HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies Great Plains / History
Zusammenfassung:	Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Part 1. Indigenous Grassland Adaptations over the Longue Durée -- 1. Before the Horse: Indigenous Food Systems on the Plains, 1300-1680 -- Natale Zappia -- 2. Travois Trails: Mobile Lifeways of Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Women -- Leila Monaghan -- 3. Bison Hunters and Prairie Fires: A View from the Northwestern Plains -- María Nieves Zedeño, Christopher Roos, Kacy Hollenback, and Mary Hagen Erlick -- 4. To Know the Story behind It: Aboriginal Heritage and Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains -- Geneviève Susemihl -- Part 2. Animals on the Great Plains -- 5. Kinscapes and the Buffalo Chase: The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Plains Métis Hunting Brigades -- Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall -- 6. Fauna and Flux on the Plains' Edge: Animal Kinship, Place Making, and Cherokee Relational Continuity -- Clint Carroll -- 7. Bison and Bookkeeping: Accounting for an Environmental Imagination in Great Plains Trading Posts -- George Colpitts -- 8. An Uncommon Nuisance: Cattle Feeding, Nuisance Complaints, and Legal Remedies on the Southern Plains -- Jacob A. Blackwell -- Part 3. Modern Agriculture and the Transformation of the Plains -- 9. Measuring Expertise: Ralph Parshall and Watershed Management, 1920-1940 -- Michael Weeks -- 10. A "Plow to Save the Plains": Conservation Tillage on the North American Grasslands, 1938-1973 -- Joshua Nygren -- 11. From Wheat to Wheaties: Minneapolis, the Great Plains, and the Transformation of American Food -- Michael J. Lansing -- 12. "Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries": Settler Society Agricultural Adaptation in the Great Plains Northwest -- Molly P. Rozum -- Part 4. Energy Landscapes -- 13. Energy Heartland: How the Midcontinent Pipeline System Fueled and Fouled the Great Plains -- Philip A. Wight -- 14. Places of Overburden: Strip Mining and Reclamation on the Northern Great Plains -- Ryan Driskell Tate -- 15. Encountering Oil Cultures in a Prairie Town -- Jonathan Peyton and Matthew Dyce -- 16. Blows Like Hell: The Windy Plains of the West -- Julie Courtwright -- Contributors -- Index
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index 2107
Beschreibung:	XXVIII, 372 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:	9781496225078 9781496226471