The Greater Plains

Brian Frehner is an associate professor of history at University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is the author of Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859–1920 (Nebraska, 2011), winner of the Hal K. Rothman Prize, and coeditor of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest. Kathleen A. Brosnan is Paul and Doris Easton Travis Chair of History at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author or coeditor of a number of books, including City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History and Mapping Nature across the Americas.      

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan
Part 1. Indigenous Grassland Adaptations over the Longue Durée
1. Before the Horse: Indigenous Food Systems on the Plains, 1300–1680
Natale Zappia
2. Travois Trails: Mobile Lifeways of Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Women
Leila Monaghan
3. Bison Hunters and Prairie Fires: A View from the Northwestern Plains
María Nieves Zedeño, Christopher Roos, Kacy Hollenback, and Mary Hagen Erlick
4. To Know the Story behind It: Indigenous Heritage and Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
Geneviève Susemihl
Part 2. Animals on the Great Plains
5. Kinscapes and the Buffalo Chase: The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Plains Métis Hunting Brigades
Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall
6. Fauna and Flux on the Plains’ Edge: Animal Kinship, Place Making, and Cherokee Relational Continuity
Clint Carroll
7. Bison and Bookkeeping: Accounting for an Environmental Imagination in Great Plains Trading Posts
George Colpitts
8. An Uncommon Nuisance: Cattle Feeding, Nuisance Complaints, and Legal Remedies on the Southern Plains
Jacob A. Blackwell
Part 3. Modern Agriculture and the Transformation of the Plains
9. Measuring Expertise: Ralph Parshall and Watershed Management, 1920–1940
Michael Weeks
10. A “Plow to Save the Plains”: Conservation Tillage on the North American Grasslands, 1938–1973
Joshua Nygren
11. From Wheat to Wheaties: Minneapolis, the Great Plains, and the Transformation of American Food
Michael J. Lansing
12. “Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries”: Settler Society Agricultural Adaptation in the Great Plains Northwest
Molly P. Rozum
Part 4. Energy Landscapes
13. Energy Heartland: How the Midcontinent Pipeline System Fueled and Fouled the Great Plains
Philip A. Wight
14. Places of Overburden: Strip Mining and Reclamation on the Northern Great Plains
Ryan Driskell Tate
15. Encountering Oil Cultures in a Prairie Town
Jonathan Peyton and Matthew Dyce
16. Blows Like Hell: The Windy Plains of the West
Julie Courtwright
Contributors
Index