The Greater Plains

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan
Part 1. Indigenous Grassland Adaptations over the Longue Durée
1. Before the Horse: Indigenous Food Systems on the Plains, 1300–1680
Natale Zappia
2. Travois Trails: Mobile Lifeways of Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Women
Leila Monaghan
3. Bison Hunters and Prairie Fires: A View from the Northwestern Plains
María Nieves Zedeño, Christopher Roos, Kacy Hollenback, and Mary Hagen Erlick
4. To Know the Story behind It: Indigenous Heritage and Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
Geneviève Susemihl
Part 2. Animals on the Great Plains
5. Kinscapes and the Buffalo Chase: The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Plains Métis Hunting Brigades
Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall
6. Fauna and Flux on the Plains’ Edge: Animal Kinship, Place Making, and Cherokee Relational Continuity
Clint Carroll
7. Bison and Bookkeeping: Accounting for an Environmental Imagination in Great Plains Trading Posts
George Colpitts
8. An Uncommon Nuisance: Cattle Feeding, Nuisance Complaints, and Legal Remedies on the Southern Plains
Jacob A. Blackwell
Part 3. Modern Agriculture and the Transformation of the Plains
9. Measuring Expertise: Ralph Parshall and Watershed Management, 1920–1940
Michael Weeks
10. A “Plow to Save the Plains”: Conservation Tillage on the North American Grasslands, 1938–1973
Joshua Nygren
11. From Wheat to Wheaties: Minneapolis, the Great Plains, and the Transformation of American Food
Michael J. Lansing
12. “Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries”: Settler Society Agricultural Adaptation in the Great Plains Northwest
Molly P. Rozum
Part 4. Energy Landscapes
13. Energy Heartland: How the Midcontinent Pipeline System Fueled and Fouled the Great Plains
Philip A. Wight
14. Places of Overburden: Strip Mining and Reclamation on the Northern Great Plains
Ryan Driskell Tate
15. Encountering Oil Cultures in a Prairie Town
Jonathan Peyton and Matthew Dyce
16. Blows Like Hell: The Windy Plains of the West
Julie Courtwright
Contributors
Index