Empowering the West

Jay Brigham

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• While electricity held considerable promise for residents of the American West throughout the 1920s, it did not come with the flip of a switch. That d... Lees meer

American Indians in the Marketplace

Brian C Hosmer

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Although it is usually assumed that Native Americans have lost their cultural identity through modernization, some peoples have proved otherwise. Bria... Lees meer

Water, Land, and Law in the West

Donald J Pisani

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• This volume features the best and most influential essays by Donald Pisani, one of our nation's leading environmental and western historians. Collecti... Lees meer

Fragile Paradise

Mansel Blackford

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• With its white sandy beaches, lush green uplands, and near-perfect weather, the Hawaiian island of Maui is more than a picture postcard: it is a multi... Lees meer

I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• "Got the fire under control. My knees have scabbed over and feel pretty good today, but my hands are in a hell of a shape. Damned if I'll ever fight f... Lees meer

Conservation Trusts

Sally K Fairfax, Darla Guenzler

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• In the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a conservation trust helped stabilize and regenerate the damaged area. When bird habitats along the Platte ... Lees meer

Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains

Gilbert F. White

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• The High Plains region was once called the Great American Desert and thought to be, in the words of explorer Stephen Long, "wholly unfit for cultivati... Lees meer

The Pacific Raincoast

Robert Bunting

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• The Pacific Northwest has always invoked images of lush forested landscapes and travelog vistas. More recently, such images have been marred by much-p... Lees meer

American Indians in the Marketplace

Brian C Hosmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Although it is usually assumed that Native Americans have lost their cultural identity through modernization, some peoples have proved otherwise. Bria... Lees meer

Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains

Mary W M Hargreaves

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Grandiose plans for land retirement and expanded irrigation have been frequently proposed for the northern Great Plains, but they have not significant... Lees meer

Devil's Bargains

Hal K Rothman

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• The West is popularly perceived as America's last outpost of unfettered opportunity, but twentieth-century corporate tourism has transformed it into A... Lees meer

Nontimber Forest Products in the United States

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• A quiet revolution is taking place in America's forests. Once seen primarily as stands of timber, our woodlands are now prized as a rich source of a w... Lees meer

Colony and Empire

William G Robbins

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Popular writers and historians alike have perpetuated the powerful myth of the rugged-individualist single-handedly transforming the American West. In... Lees meer

Federal Land, Western Anger

R McGreggor Cawley

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• In 1979 the Nevada state legislature passed a bill providing for state control of certain lands within the state boundaries under the administration o... Lees meer

American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law

Lloyd Burton

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Gold is no longer the most precious treasure of the American West. Water is. In the arid western half of the United States, the unquenchable thirsts o... Lees meer

River of Promise, River of Peril

John E Thorson

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Snaking 2,540 miles from Montana to the Mississippi River, the Missouri is the longest waterway in the nation. Its basin--stretching 530,000 square mi... Lees meer

Unruly River

Robert Kelley Schneiders

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Over the course of two centuries, Americans have tried to tame the Missouri River. First explored by Lewis and Clark, this once-free-flowing river has... Lees meer

Smelter Smoke in North America

John D Wirth

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Air pollution challenges nations sharing common borders to balance economic needs with protecting citizens and the environment across jurisdictions. B... Lees meer

Selling Yellowstone

Mark Daniel Barringer

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• For over a century, Yellowstone National Park has been a monument to wildness in America. But long before flames swept through Yellowstone in 1988, th... Lees meer

State Trust Lands

Jon A Souder, Sally K Fairfax

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Before the federal constitution was written, the Confederate Congress established a policy providing land grants for local and state governments to su... Lees meer

Watering the Valley

James E Sherow

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• James Earl Sherow contends that a vast network of problems in the arid West has sprung from the mistaken notion that water is a commodity to be bought... Lees meer

A Green and Permanent Land

Randal S Beeman, James a Pritchard

• Hardcover | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dollar business ... Lees meer

America's National Monuments

Hal K Rothman

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• With the stroke of a pen, Theodore Roosevelt created the Grand Canyon National Monument in 1908. Without his quick action, commercial developers, alre... Lees meer

Acting for Endangered Species

Shannon C Petersen

• Paperback | Engels | Development of Western Resources
• When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, it did so in the belief that threats to emblematic creatures like bison or commercial crops s... Lees meer