Description: An anthology of diverse approaches and issues in the environmental history of the American West.
Brief description: James E. Sherow is a professor of history at Kansas State University. A specialist in the environmental history of the American West, he is the author of The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History and Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950. He is also the editor of A Sense of the American West: An Environmental History Anthology (UNM Press).
Review Quotes: "This book will be quite useful to those who want to begin to familiarize themselves with the amorphous field of environmental history. . . . it provides an excellent introduction to the thinking of an inspired set of writers . . ."