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...Donald J. Pisani The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains . Dan Flores . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 636 / Agricultural History Heffilan Taubeneck and his successor, Marion Butler. However, in an argument that echoes Peter...

...Cynthia G. Falk Life on a Rocky Farm: Rural Life near New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century . By Lucas C. Barger . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2013 . 190 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4384-46028 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013...

...Michael Weeks Persistent Progressives: The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union . By John F. Freeman . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2016 . 216 pp., $22.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-60732-432-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 603 The book closes...

...Thomas G. Andrews Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West . By Jen Corinne Brown . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . 248 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-99457-4. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural...

...William D. Rowley Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts . Daniel Tyler . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 385 Young scholars will find Labor's Promised Land a very useful overview of the BTW, STFU, and the conditions...

...Chris Young Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies . By Michael D. Wise . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2016 . 216 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-4981-3 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 282 Agricultural History...

...Joseph E. Taylor, III Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies . By Thomas G. Andrews . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 352 pp., $29.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0674-08857-3. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Spring Coyote...

... of american agriculture. r. douglas Hurt Purdue University Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West. By Jen Corinne Brown. seattle: university of Washington Press, 2015. 248 pp., $35.00, hardback, isBn 978-0-295-99457-4. residents of the rocky Mountain West and visitors alike...

... to the "most detailed examinations that exist of a major western river ecosystem at the time when U.S. explorers began to probe the West" (45). The other essays include "Place: Thinking about Bioregional History"; "Is? lands in the Desert: The Rocky Mountains in Environmental History"; "Zion in Eden: Phases...

... Reviews trout fisheries as wild and natural rather than cultivated and artificial (3). The true tale of rocky Mountain trout, Brown argues, hinges on the com- plex interplay between four historical processes: american settler-colonialism, which the author situates in a broader context of anglo-american...

... and the Rocky Mountains, a vast swath of land that was divided between the United States and Canada in 1818 along the 49th parallel. Though long ignored or simply taken for granted, this boundary area has begun to attract attention from scholars interested in the process of state formation and its implications...

... be a model for those who study society s response to natural disasters. David Cullen Arkansas Tech University Persistent Progressives: The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. By John F. Freeman. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2016. 216 pp., $22.99, hardback, ISBN 978-1-60732-432-4. John Freeman s work...

... & Cooper to Lyman Humphrey, May 14, 1889; Michael Cahill to Lyman Humphrey, May 12, 1890, 27-05-04-04, folder 11, box 15, Lyman Humphrey Papers, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kans. (hereafter LHP); Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colo.), May 29 , 1892 ; Spence , Rainmakers , 53 – 56...

... Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell ( Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2004 ), 135 – 41 ; “Stock News and Notes,” Rocky Mountain Diamond City (Mont.) Husbandman , Jan. 20 , 1887 ; “Live Stock,” Rocky Mountain Husbandman , June 15 , 1899 ; Kelly , Range...

... , Cyanide Uncertainties (Washington, D.C: Mineral Policy Center, 1998 ) Ted Lange , "Big Problems at Montana’s Biggest Mine," Plains Truth (Billings, Mont.), Fall 1993 15 Fort Belknap Community Council (FBCC), "The Struggle to Save the Little Rocky Mountains," [Pamphlet] (Hays, Mont...

... called us), then decided it wanted to hire me in a tenure-track capacity. The open slot was in Texas history, however, a field I knew only very marginally. Having written a Walter Webb-like disserta? tion on the Rockies, I called myself something most of my colleagues were not doubt confronting...

..., Wisconsin. Part of that study dealing with chattel mortgages was published in Agricultural History in 2003, and Al generously listed me as a co-author. Al encouraged me to expand my MA thesis by studying rural resettlement in the Rocky Mountain West and that became the focus of my dissertation. He...

... of the customers of this crop production: the silver mines of the Rockies and the coal camps of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico). The “closed basin” phenomenon of the valley led to a rise in its water table in the early twentieth century, a condition that allowed farmers to engage in “subirrigation...

... in the tallgrass prairie, invasion by woody growth can crowd out a healthy prairie s mix of grass and forbs in just a few decades. Courtwright deftly places this dynamic ecology in the scope of geologic time: fifty million years throughout which the Rocky Mountains rose, casting their rain shadow across the arid...

... of sites considered in the book. Sev? eral essays discuss areas in the San Luis Valley, the Front Range, and sites deep in the Rocky Mountains. Pawnee Buttes alone represents the state's vast eastern plains. Anita Harkess's essay on a park in Lakewood, a city in the Denver metropolitan area, is the only...