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Big Sky Rivers : The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri Robert Kelley
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- Bon
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- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- University Press of Kansas
- ISBN
- 9780700612642
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Book, Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Big Sky Rivers : the Yellowstone and Upper Missouri
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Genre
- Nature, Social Science
- Topic
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Regional
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 392 Pages
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Historically, it is the land of the bison. But the land across which these powerful herds once thundered has been transformed. We know it today by such names as Montana, Wyoming, Dakota, western Iowa, and Nebraska--but it is really buffalo country, the land of the big sky rivers. This book is a tale of two rivers, a history of the majestic Missouri and how it was once wedded to the Yellowstone. Though quite different today--one dammed into reservoirs, the other unregulated with a semblance of wildness--they were once linked ecologically, geographically, and historically. Then in the twentieth century, Euro-Americans dismantled many of these connections and attempted to uncouple the streams. Viewing the rivers and their surrounding lands as a living system, Robert Kelley Schneiders focuses on four components within the Upper Missouri bioregion--the Missouri River valley, the Yellowstone River valley, Homo sapiens, and bison--to show the significance of their interaction over the past two hundred years. To frame his story, Schneiders goes back to the nineteenth-century journals of fur traders and settlers, and in the record of flora, fauna, floods, and human activity he finds evidence of rapid and disruptive change. Bison once had the greatest influence on the land, and Schneiders depicts an original bison and Indian trail network on which were overlaid the first forts and towns and then the railroads, highways, and reservoirs that reconfigured the region forever. Schneiders explains how these geographical constructs interacted with larger demographic and economic trends in the twentieth-century West, as dams and their resultant reservoirs enhanced the federal presence in the Dakotas and eastern Montana. He describes human encroachment on the rivers and tells why the Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri but spared the Yellowstone. The engineers and their backers have so completely engineered the Missouri that few people today think of it as anything other than water. But we can reestablish our bonds to the river if we decide to let it flow once again, argues Schneiders. Removing the dams on the Missouri is the first step toward reasserting localism and grassroots democracy. In what was once buffalo country, a dormant ecology awaits rebirth. A major work of environmental history, Big Sky Rivers offers a challenging vision for the future of the Upper Missouri bioregion.
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700612645
ISBN-13
9780700612642
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2483758
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Sky Rivers : the Yellowstone and Upper Missouri
Format
Book, Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Regional
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Nature, Social Science
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F737.Y4s37 2003
Reviews
"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, "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
Table of Content
List of Maps and Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Upper Missouri: Character and Ecology in the Early Nineteenth Century 2. Bison World: Migration Routes and the Missouri and Yellowstone Main Stems 3. Buffalo People: The Influence of Bison on Indigenous Culture, History, and Geography 4. Explorers beyond the Platte: Lewis and Clark and Early Euro-American History 5. In Search of Place: The Sioux and Euro-America 6. To the Horizon: The Teton Sioux Move West 7. A Hydraulic Empire: The Corps of Engineers and the Reclamation Service 8. Try and Try Again: Schemes to Dam the Yellowstone 9. Vanishing Act: Pick, Sloan, the Upper Missouri, and Yellowstone 10. The World We Have Wrought: Current Ecological and Geographic Status of the Upper Missouri Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2003
Lccn
2003-006867
Dewey Decimal
978
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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