American Serengeti
The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
"Bison. Horses. Coyotes. Wolves. Grizzly Bears. Pronghorns. A la John McPhee and Edward Hoagland, noted Western and environmental historian Flores dazzles with his vivid, informed, and richly detailed essays on six iconic animals of the American Great Plains. Diving into their genetic past as far back as the Pleistocene epoch and on up to restoration efforts in recent times, Flores is especially evocative and illuminating about the lives of these animals (and their interactions with humans) in the several centuries running from the dawn of the Age of Exploration through the end of the Indian Wars"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: American Serengeti -- 1. Empires of the Sun : Big History and the Great Plains -- 2. Pronghorns : Survivors from a Lost World -- 3. Coyote : The American Jackal -- 4. Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses : The Horse Trade and the American Great Plains -- 5. The Most Dangerous Beast : The Grizzly, the Great Plains, and the West -- 6. A Dream of Bison -- 7. Wolfsong Redux -- 8. Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Re-Wilding the Plains.
Subjects:
Animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Herbivores -- Great Plains -- History.
Predatory animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Grassland animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Grassland ecology -- Great Plains.
Natural history -- Great Plains.
Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Plains -- History.
Environmental degradation -- Great Plains -- History.
Wildlife conservation -- Great Plains -- History.
Great Plains -- History.
Great Plains -- Environmental conditions.
Animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Herbivores -- Great Plains -- History.
Predatory animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Grassland animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Grassland ecology -- Great Plains.
Natural history -- Great Plains.
Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Plains -- History.
Environmental degradation -- Great Plains -- History.
Wildlife conservation -- Great Plains -- History.
Great Plains -- History.
Great Plains -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN:
9780700622276
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ANIMALS Flo | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
ANIMALS Flo | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.