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Great Plains

Author : Michael Forsberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668167X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Great Plains written by Michael Forsberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North America. But all is not lost on the prairie. Through lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beautifully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing the lingering wild that still survives and whose diverse natural communities, native creatures, migratory traditions, and natural systems together create one vast and extraordinary whole. Three broad geographic regions in Great Plains are covered in detail, evoked in the unforgettable and often haunting images taken by Michael Forsberg. Between the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2008, Forsberg traveled roughly 100,000 miles across 12 states and three provinces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the photographic fieldwork for this project, underwritten by The Nature Conservancy. Complementing Forsberg’s images and firsthand accounts are essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart and acclaimed writer Dan O’Brien. Each section of the book begins with a thorough overview by Wishart, while O’Brien—a wildlife biologist and rancher as well as a writer—uses his powerful literary voice to put the Great Plains into a human context, connecting their natural history with man’s uses and abuses. The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape—overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of conservation. This book helps lead the way forward, informing and inspiring readers to recognize the wild spirit and splendor of this irreplaceable part of the planet.

American Serengeti

Author : Dan Flores
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070062466X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book American Serengeti written by Dan Flores and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals." In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory—and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Great Plains with its wildlife intact dazzled Americans and Europeans alike, prompting numerous literary tributes. American Serengeti takes its place alongside these celebratory works, showing us the grazers and predators of the plains against the vast opalescent distances, the blue mountains shimmering on the horizon, the great rippling tracts of yellowed grasslands. Far from the empty "flyover country" of recent times, this landscape is alive with a complex ecology at least 20,000 years old—a continental patrimony whose wonders may not be entirely lost, as recent efforts hold out hope of partial restoration of these historic species. Written by an author who has done breakthrough work on the histories of several of these animals—including bison, wild horses, and coyotes—American Serengeti is as rigorous in its research as it is intimate in its sense of wonder—the most deeply informed, closely observed view we have of the Great Plains' wild heritage.

Zen of the Plains

Author : Tyra A. Olstad
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415522
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Zen of the Plains written by Tyra A. Olstad and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although spare, sweeping landscapes may appear "empty," plains and prairies afford a rich, unique aesthetic experience--one of quiet sunrises and dramatic storms, hidden treasures and abundant wildlife, infinite horizons and omnipresent wind, all worthy of contemplation and celebration. In this series of narratives, photographs, and hand-drawn maps, Tyra Olstad blends scholarly research with first-hand observation to explore topics such as wildness and wilderness, travel and tourism, preservation and conservation, expectations and acceptance, and even dreams and reality in the context of parks, prairies, and wild, open places. In so doing, she invites readers to reconsider the meaning of "emptiness" and ask larger, deeper questions such as: how do people experience the world? How do we shape places and how do places shape us? Above all, what does it mean to experience that exhilarating effect known as Zen of the plains?

Wild Life!

Author : Re:wild
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1507216432
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Wild Life! written by Re:wild and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . Facts, conservation success stories, and profiles of people working hard to find and protect the rarest of . . . species"--Provided by publisher.

Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare

Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains

Author : Timothy M. Caro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226094342
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains written by Timothy M. Caro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains is the most comprehensive account of carnivore social behavior to date. Synthesizing more than a decade of research in the wild, this book offers a detailed account of the behavior and ecology of cheetahs. Compared with other large cats, and other mammals, cheetahs have an unusual breeding system; whereas lions live in prides and tigers are solitary, some cheetahs live in groups while others live by themselves. Tim Caro explores group and solitary living among cheetahs and discovers that the causes of social behavior vary dramatically, even within a single species. Why do cheetah cubs stay with their mother for a full year after weaning? Why do adolescents remain in groups? Why do adult males live in permanent associations with each other? Why do adult females live alone? Through observations on the costs and benefits of group living, Caro offers new insight into the complex behavior of this extraordinary species. For example, contrary to common belief about cooperative hunting in large carnivores, he shows that neither adolescents nor adult males benefit from hunting in groups. With many surprising findings, and through comparisons with other cat species, Caro enriches our understanding of the evolution of social behavior and offers new perspectives on conservation efforts to save this charismatic and endangered carnivore.

Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare : By a Corps of Competent Authors and Artists. Being a Complete History of Indian Life, Warfare and Adventure in America. Making Specially Prominent the Late Indain War, with Full Descriptions of the Messiah Craze, Ghost Dance, Life of Sitting Bull

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Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare : By a Corps of Competent Authors and Artists. Being a Complete History of Indian Life, Warfare and Adventure in America. Making Specially Prominent the Late Indain War, with Full Descriptions of the Messiah Craze, Ghost Dance, Life of Sitting Bull written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wild Life on the Plains (Expanded, Annotated)

Author : G. A. Custer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519059789
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Wild Life on the Plains (Expanded, Annotated) written by G. A. Custer and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an expanded, posthumous version of Custer's "My Life on the Plains" with additional chapters.Whatever you think of George Armstrong Custer, his permanence in American Western history and the history of the Civil War are assured. That makes his writings on his life in the west and his observations of Indian life fascinating to read. It may be surprising to many that Custer felt that, despite his views of Indians largely conforming to those of his white contemporaries, he felt injustices had been done to the Native Americans. He also felt that if he were in their place, he would resent and resist being moved off of traditional lands.A number of other authors lent their talents to creating additional chapters for this 1891 edition. In addition, for the first time in this volume is General Hazen's criticism of Custer's book.

The Animals Came Dancing

Author : Howard L. Harrod
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520275
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Animals Came Dancing written by Howard L. Harrod and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major overview of the relationship between Indians and animals on the northern Great Plains, the author recovers a sense of the knowledge that hunting peoples had of the animals upon which they depended and raises important questions about Euroamerican relationships with the natural world.

Wild LIfe on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Wild LIfe on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wild Animals and Settlers on the Great Plains

Author : Eugene D. Fleharty
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806127095
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Wild Animals and Settlers on the Great Plains written by Eugene D. Fleharty and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique history chronicles reciprocal relations between settlers and the native fauna of Kansas from the end of the Civil War until 1880. While including the development of early-day conservation and game laws, zoologist Eugene D. Fleharty tells of wanton wastefulness on the frontier, but also curiosity, concern, and creativity on the part of individual settlers, who hunted and fished for food and recreation or simply wondered at the animals’ antics. Using only primary accounts from newspapers and diaries, Fleharty vividly portrays frontier life before such species as the bison, beaver, antelope, bear, mountain lion, gray wolf, rattlesnake, and black-footed ferret were more or less extirpated by steel plows, reapers, barbed wire, and firearms. As the author shows the impact of civilization on the prairie ecosystem, readers will share in the lives of the early settlers, experiencing their successes and hardships much as their neighbors did. This historical account of a typical plains state’s ecology during the traumatic homesteading era will interest professionals concerned with biodiversity and global warming as well as frontier-history buffs.

Great Wildlife of the Great Plains

Author : Paul A. Johnsgard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Great Wildlife of the Great Plains written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of 121 birds, mammals, and reptiles native to the Great Plains, organized by habitat with information on each animal's behavior and ecology.

Wild by Nature

Author : Andrea L. Smalley
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421422352
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Wild by Nature written by Andrea L. Smalley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wild by Nature answers the question: how did indigenous animals shape the course of colonization in English America? The book argues that animals acted as obstacles to colonization because their wildness was at odds with Anglo-American legal assertions of possession. Animals and their pursuers transgressed the legal lines officials drew to demarcate colonizers' sovereignty and control over the landscape. Consequently, wild creatures became legal actors in the colonizing process--the subjects of statutes, the issues in court cases, and the parties to treaties--as authorities struggled to both contain and preserve the wildness that made those animals so valuable to English settler societies in North America in the first place. Only after wild creatures were brought under the state's legal ownership and control could the land be rationally organized and possessed. The book examines the colonization of American animals as a separate strand interwoven into a larger story of English colonizing in North America. As such, it proceeds along a different and longer timeline than other colonial histories, tracing a path through various wild animal frontiers from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake into the southern backcountry in the eighteenth century and across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth to end in the southern plains in the decades after the Civil War. Along the way, it maps out an argumentative arc that describes three manifestations of colonization as it variously applied to beavers, wolves, fish, deer, and bison. Wild by Nature engages broad questions about the environment, law, and society in early America"--

Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains

Author :
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803276185
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully rendered reference guide to the Great Plains portion of the famous expedition through the American West highlights the explorer's remarkable encounters with previously undocumented flora and fauna as they moved through the Plains region. Original. (Biology & Natural History)

Great Plains

Author : Ian Frazier
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466828889
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Great Plains written by Ian Frazier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.

Wild Life

Author : Cynthia DeFelice
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466801115
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Wild Life written by Cynthia DeFelice and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik is preparing for his first-ever hunting trip when he learns that his parents are being deployed to Iraq. A few days later, Erik is shipped off to North Dakota to live with Big Darrell and Oma, grandparents he barely knows. When Erik rescues a dog that's been stuck by a porcupine, Big Darrell says Erik can't keep him. But Erik has already named her Quill and can't bear to give her up. He decides to run away, taking the dog and a shotgun, certain that they can make it on their own out on the prairie. In this story of adventure and survival, Erik learns about the challenges and satisfactions of living off the land, the power of family secrets, and the pain of losing what you love.

The Horse and the Plains Indians

Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547125518
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book The Horse and the Plains Indians written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.