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04736cam a2200505 a 4500 001 10619A7A2B0F11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20230510010042 008 070105s2007 cauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2007000197 020 $a 1851097252 (ebook) 020 $a 9781851097258 (ebook) 020 $a 1851097201 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9781851097203 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)77716612 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d C#P $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d AGL $d SOI $d NOR $d UII $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GF503 $b .S54 2007 070 0 $a GF503 $b .S54 2007 082 00 $a 333.740973 $2 22 100 1 $a Sherow, James Earl. 245 1 $a The grasslands of the United States : $b an environmental history / $c James E. Sherow. 260 $a Santa Barbara, Calif. : $b ABC-CLIO, $c c2007. 300 $a xv, 389 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 27 cm. 490 1 $a ABC-CLIO's nature and human societies series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-373) and index. 505 00 $t References -- $t Acknowledgments -- $t Introduction -- $g The $t emergence of grassland relationships pre-1500 CE -- $g The $t arrival of the immigrants -- $t What is a grass? -- $g The $t Pleistocene scene -- $t Climatic changes -- $t Archaic to Anasazi -- $t Plains woodland and plains village cultures -- $t On the eve of European contact -- $t References -- $g 2. The $t unraveling of the wild grasslands -- $t Animal distributions, grassland patterns, and soil types -- $t Little Ice Age -- $t Human population and subsistence patterns -- $t Caddo, Jumano, Apache, and Pueblo exchanges and trade patterns -- $t Arrival of European diseases -- $t Contact and consequences -- $g The $t rise of the Comanche Empire -- $t New arrivals and ways of ecological adaptation -- $t Enter the Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Sioux -- $g The $t memes of trade and culture -- $t Collapse of the grassland biome -- $g The $t beginnings of the domesticated grassland -- $g The $t bridge between the wild and domestic grasslands -- $t References -- 505 00 $g A $t References -- $g The $t urban eclipse of the agricultural economy -- $t Euro-American market culture values and land-grant colleges -- $t Market culture values and commodification -- $t Farming systems -- $t Domestic grasses -- $g The $t irrigation crusade -- $t Irrigation crusade -- $t Irrigation court cases -- $t Enter federal reclamation -- $t Bonanza farms -- $t Open-range ranching -- $t War and the grasslands -- $g The $t Dust Bowl -- $g The $t New Deal and World War II -- $t References -- $g 4. The $t most endangered ecosystem on earth -- $t Artistic portrayals of the grasslands -- $t Grassland park systems -- $t Urbanized grasslands -- $t Contemporary grassland hydrology -- $t Changes in farming and rural demographics -- $t Environmental problems associated with modern agriculture -- $t Traditional conservation in the grasslands -- $t Alternative agriculture -- $t Environmentalism in the grasslands -- $g A $t buffalo commons in the making? -- $t Future directions -- $t References -- 505 00 $g The $t Index. $t Case study : State making and unmaking (and making it back at all) : following Zebulon Pike across the Plains in 1806 -- $g A $t young nation and a young soldier facing West -- $t Making it in the grasslands -- $g A $t desert no more -- $t References -- $t Case study : Wetlands of the American Grasslands -- $t Wetland hydrology -- $t Wetland flora and fauna -- $t Humans and plains wetlands -- $t References -- $t Case study : John Wesley Powell and the Rocky Mountain West -- $t Powell's life -- $t Geology of the Rocky Mountains -- $t Learning the geography of the Rocky Mountains -- $t Pre-contact mountain biomes -- $t Fur companies, Indian peoples, and miners -- $t Forests and parks -- $g The $t West's reservoirs -- $g The $t urbanized mountains -- $g The $t West's playground or the nation's energy reserve? -- $t Powell's unrealized dream -- $t References -- $t Documents -- $t Important people, events, and concepts -- $t Chronology -- $t Selected annotated bibliography -- $t Index. 650 0 $a Human ecology $z United States. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x Ethnobotany. 650 0 $a Grassland ecology $z United States. 650 0 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Environmental conditions. 830 0 $a Nature and human societies. 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007000197.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007000197-d.html 941 $a 5 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405011448.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140415020259.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UDAX314 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=10619A7A2B0F11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b UIIInitiate Another SILO Locator Search