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The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World
Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change, Revised and Expanded Edition
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682831861
Pub Date: September 2023
How one solar power plant might chart a sustainable path forward for enlisting American capitalism in the fight against climate change.
The Falls of Wichita Falls
An Environmental History of the Red Rolling Plains
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781682831564
Pub Date: April 2023
An environmental history of the red rolling plains of Wichita Falls, Texas, detailing the region's past Progressive Era land ethics, water management, boom and bust oil towns, and natural resource allocation.
The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World
Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682830932
Pub Date: August 2021
How one solar power plant might chart a sustainable path forward for enlisting American capitalism in the fight against climate change.
Sand, Water, Salt
Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781682830819
Pub Date: August 2021
Cataloguing the ecology of progressive-era western literature.
Ditches Across the Desert
Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781682830291
Pub Date: September 2019
This book illuminates the myriad personalities and interests that combined and clashed over the Pecos Valley reservoirs and canals. Many Americans, including western lawmakers, considered irrigation...
Flood on the Tracks
Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781682830208
Pub Date: April 2018
The Elkhorn River originates in north-central Nebraska and empties into the Platte River just west of Omaha. One of the first written records of the Elkhorn describes a flood. A flood hindered travel up the river by the valley's first non-Indian settlers. Decade after decade, floods have swept away mill dams, destroyed crops, drowned stock, soaked inventories, filled basements, undercut roads, washed out railroads and bridges, turned unfortunate riverside homes--even a dance hall--into unwieldy watercraft, and killed people. Everyone in the Elkhorn Valley agreed the Flood of 1944 was the worst in history. Until the deadly Flood of 2010 took the title. From a perspective unusual on the Great Plains--the problem of too much water--Flood on the Tracks offers an intimate portrait of life in the Elkhorn River Basin of northeast Nebraska. In a region often defined by aridity, rivers and their basins have provided sustenance, shelter, fertile soil, and...
Showdown in the Big Quiet
Land, Myth, and Government in the American West
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896729032
Pub Date: March 2015
Owyhee County, Idaho, also known as the “Big Quiet,” is the largest and least inhabited area in the lower forty-eight states. Who has decided how to use it? From violent mine wars in the mid-nineteenth...
Water on the Great Plains
Issues and Policies
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780896724594
Pub Date: January 2002
The Great Plains of North America stretch from Texas to Alberta. The region’s history is rich and its population diverse. But throughout this huge area, one issue has dominated culture and politics...
The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World
Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change, Revised and Expanded Edition
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682831861
Pub Date: September 2023
How one solar power plant might chart a sustainable path forward for enlisting American capitalism in the fight against climate change.
The Falls of Wichita Falls
An Environmental History of the Red Rolling Plains
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781682831564
Pub Date: April 2023
An environmental history of the red rolling plains of Wichita Falls, Texas, detailing the region's past Progressive Era land ethics, water management, boom and bust oil towns, and natural resource allocation.
The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World
Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682830932
Pub Date: August 2021
How one solar power plant might chart a sustainable path forward for enlisting American capitalism in the fight against climate change.
Sand, Water, Salt
Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880–1925
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781682830819
Pub Date: August 2021
Cataloguing the ecology of progressive-era western literature.
Ditches Across the Desert
Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781682830291
Pub Date: September 2019
This book illuminates the myriad personalities and interests that combined and clashed over the Pecos Valley reservoirs and canals. Many Americans, including western lawmakers, considered irrigation...
Flood on the Tracks
Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781682830208
Pub Date: April 2018
The Elkhorn River originates in north-central Nebraska and empties into the Platte River just west of Omaha. One of the first written records of the Elkhorn describes a flood. A flood hindered travel up the river by the valley's first non-Indian settlers. Decade after decade, floods have swept away mill dams, destroyed crops, drowned stock, soaked inventories, filled basements, undercut roads, washed out railroads and bridges, turned unfortunate riverside homes--even a dance hall--into unwieldy watercraft, and killed people. Everyone in the Elkhorn Valley agreed the Flood of 1944 was the worst in history. Until the deadly Flood of 2010 took the title. From a perspective unusual on the Great Plains--the problem of too much water--Flood on the Tracks offers an intimate portrait of life in the Elkhorn River Basin of northeast Nebraska. In a region often defined by aridity, rivers and their basins have provided sustenance, shelter, fertile soil, and...
Showdown in the Big Quiet
Land, Myth, and Government in the American West
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896729032
Pub Date: March 2015
Owyhee County, Idaho, also known as the “Big Quiet,” is the largest and least inhabited area in the lower forty-eight states. Who has decided how to use it? From violent mine wars in the mid-nineteenth...
Water on the Great Plains
Issues and Policies
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780896724594
Pub Date: January 2002
The Great Plains of North America stretch from Texas to Alberta. The region’s history is rich and its population diverse. But throughout this huge area, one issue has dominated culture and politics...