a ISBN 0-8263-1913-0

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number GE155.W47

b Item number S46 1998

a Dewey Classification 333.7/0978

a Title A sense of the American West :

b Remainder of title an anthology of environmental history /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by James E. Sherow.

h Medium BOOK

a Title proper/short title Environmental history anthology

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Albuquerque :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of New Mexico Press :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1998.

a Extent x, 308 p. ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a Title Historians of the frontier and American West

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note 1. Introduction: An Evening on Konza Prairie -- 2. Spirit of Place and the Value of Nature in the American West / Dan Flores -- 3. Environmental Change in Colonial New Mexico / Robert MacCameron -- 4. Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy The Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850 / Dan Flores -- 5. Workings of the Geodialectic: High Plains Indians and their Horses in the Region of the Arkansas River Valley, 1800-1870 / James E. Sherow -- 6. Emerging Desert Landscape in Tucson / E. Gregory McPherson and Renee A. Haip -- 7. Reclaiming the Arid West: The Role of the Northern Pacific Railway in Irrigating Kennewick, Washington / Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted -- 8. Wildlife, Science, and the National Parks, 1920-1940 / Thomas R. Dunlap -- 9. Manipulating Nature's Paradise National Park Management Under Stephen T. Mather, 1916-1929 / Richard West Sellars -- 10. Battle for Wilderness: Echo Park Dam and the Birth of the Modern Wilderness Movement / Mark W. T. Harvey -- 11. "We Can Wait. We Should Wait.": Eugene's Nuclear Power Controversy, 1968-1970 / Daniel Pope -- 12. The Community Value of Water: Implications for the Rural Poor in the Southwest / F. Lee Brown and Helen M. Ingram -- 13. Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: "Mothers Of East Los Angeles" / Mary Pardo -- 14. The Drought of 1988: The Global Warming Experiment, and Its Challenge to Irrigation in the Old Dust Bowl Region / John Opie.

a Personal name Sherow James Earl