...Melody Miyamoto Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West . John Thiem and Deborah Dimon . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews periodto therapideconomicchangecharacterizintghepost-WorldWarII SunbeltT. echnologiesand...

... (October1979): 33 -41 5 Pierce journal , 17 February1884 Sprague and Atwell, The Western Shore Gazetteer, 85–93 Ann Brice , Exploring Putah Creek: From Monticello Dam to the Yolo Wildlife Area (Davis, Calif.: Putah Creek Council, 2001 ), 4 -5, 21-23 Elna Bakker , An Island...

...David Vaught Abstract This essay examines three classic Mexican land grants along Putah Creek in the lower Sacramento Valley--Rio de los Putos, Los Putos, and Laguna de Santos Callé. The first was confirmed rather routinely, the second was a "floating" claim, and the third was an out and out fraud...

..., SCA-USU. 24 Winsor, Life History, 21. 25 County Agent’s Report, 1928, 15. 26 Winsor, Life History, 1. 27 County Agent’s Report, 1928, 15. 30 "In the Matter of the Determination of Water Resources on Woodruff Creek. Petition of the Woodruff Irrigating Company," 22 April 1942...

... place. That Oklahoma straddles the South and the West helps him make his case for national significance. It was a meeting ground for Indians, African Americans, and whites who competed and cooperated for land. Each group began with distinctive ideas about the meanings of land. For Creeks, land was both...

... 2011 Book Reviews flux, changing as the state (both Oklahoma and the federal government) and the economically and politically powerful private interests imposed their will, racializing the land and altering conceptions of citizenship and nation. The Creeks, for instance, were a heterogeneous society...

... THOMAS G. ALEXANDER On 23 July 1847, the pioneer party of settlers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered on the banks of City Creek in what is now downtown Salt Lake City. Impressed with the "very rich land" and "deep grass," they prepared to start planting and irrigating farms near...

... readable narrative study of a two-generation effort to establish a stable, rural society in the Putah Creek district of northern California. Located on thenorthernmargin of the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta, this area isnow dominated by theUni versity of California's renowned "farm campus," UC Davis...

... 6 John Mack Faragher , Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986 ) Faragher , " Open-Country Community: Sugar Creek, Illinois, 1820–1850 ," in The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation , eds. Steven Hahn and Jonathan...

... with distinctive ideas about the meanings of land. For Creeks, land was both homeland and a base for political power, a circumstance compounded by a postbellum treaty that made all freed slaves Creek citizens. For African Americans, both Creek and non-Creek, it represented hope to be economically and politically...

... Bauch argues, that is central to understanding his impact on the American food system. Examining Kellogg s philosophy of digestion and the food system he built at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Bauch argues that Kellogg s vision was, in short, a geographical one (174). Bauch frames digestion...

... to force the water in this way than to pay and manage the help it would take to make do with less.19 Without the dam and its virtually unlimited supply of water, some discipline in water use would have been required, but in this case the issue could simply be sidestepped. Two natural creeks on the project...

... and grazing capacity. One of the earliest settlers in the region was John Aitken, who arrived from Scotland in March 1836. By 1849 he held a number of pastoral runs around Western Port, including Piccaninny Creek, Tandara, Myer s Creek, and Bullock Creek, with an aggregate area of 201,840 acres with a grazing...

... into bearing age along Spearfish Creek, and the editor of the Lead Daily Call confidently predicted that the farmers of the [Black] Hills JOHN HENRIS is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He is interested in the environmental history of the Black Hills and northern...

... , 239 ; Robert H. Fletcher , Free Grass to Fences: The Montana Cattle Range Story ( New York : University , 1960 ), 87 ; L. V. Kelly , The Range Men: The Story of the Ranchers and Indians of Alberta ( High River : Willow Creek , 1988 ), 191 ; Warren M. Elofson , Frontier Cattle...

... Laing , " The First Landscape: The Red Hill Creek’s Physical Environment ," From Mountain to Lake: The Red Hill Creek Valley , ed. Walter Peace (Hamilton: W. L. Griffin Ltd., 1998 ), 54 14 Canadian Climate Normals-Temperature and Precipitation, 1951–1980 , Canadian Climate Program...

.... David Vaught has written an informative and very readable narrative study of a two-generation effort to establish a stable, rural society in the Putah Creek district of northern California. Located on thenorthernmargin of the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta, this area isnow dominated by theUni...

... as Calgary s Glenbow Institute. It is the third volume in the History of the Prairies series issued by the Canadian Plains Research Centre in Regina. Each essay benefits from being in the context of reflections on the same topic. This is especially clear with the local studies of Pincher Creek...

... presents excellent information about the relationship of agri cultural practices to environmental ills, such as theGulf hypoxia zone, and suggests practical solutions. Research centers on two Iowa watersheds: Buck Creek andWalnut Creek. Three scenarios were compared to baseline prac tices. Two scenarios...

.... Research centers on two Iowa watersheds: Buck Creek andWalnut Creek. Three scenarios were compared to baseline prac tices. Two scenarios demonstrated a possible "reduction inmedian nitrate load range from 57 to 70 percent" (86). Farmers interviewed about these landscape modifications were almost...