The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
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Book Description
The Natural West offers essays reflecting the natural history of the American West as written by one of its most respected environmental historians. Developing a provocative theme, Dan Flores asserts that Western environmental history cannot be explained by examining place, culture, or policy alone, but should be understood within the context of a universal human nature.
The Natural West entertains the notion that we all have a biological nature that helps explain some of our attitudes towards the environment. Flores also explains the ways in which various cultures--including the Comanches, New Mexico Hispanos, Mormons, Texans, and Montanans--interact with the environment of the West. Gracefully moving between the personal and the objective, Flores intersperses his writings with literature, scientific theory, and personal reflection. The topics cover a wide range--from historical human nature regarding animals and exploration, to the environmental histories of particular Western bioregions, and, finally, to Western restoration as the great environmental theme of the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Dan Flores is the A. B. Hammond Professor of History at the University of Montana, Missoula. He is the author of numerous books including Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest and Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains, and the editor of Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman & Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806 (University of Oklahoma Press).
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains,Dan L. Flores,University of Oklahoma Press,080613304X,Essays,General,Great Plains,History,Human ecology,Natural History,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Rocky Mountains Region,United States - General
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