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Coyote Valley
Deep History in the High Rockies
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Thomas G. Andrews
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
About this book
Thomas Andrews drills deep into the many pressures that have reshaped a small stretch of North America, from the ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and controversies over climate change. He brings to the surface lessons about the critical relationships to land, climate, and species that only seemingly unimportant places on Earth can teach.
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Andrews Thomas G. :
Thomas G. Andrews is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Andrews has both the broad vision and the penetrating focus that major historians need…Overall a compelling [book].
-- Mark Abley Times Literary Supplement
-- Mark Abley Times Literary Supplement
Andrews covers much ground—eons of time, too—from the prehistoric era to the present to offer a ‘deep history’ of a small patch of ground in the Rockies…Those with environmental concerns and others with interests in Native history will derive much from Andrews’ fine book.
-- P. D. Travis Choice
-- P. D. Travis Choice
Andrews has followed up his Bancroft Prize–winning Killing for Coal with an exquisitely wrought portrait of an out-of-the-way place that must be central to our understanding of the American West’s past, present, and future: the headwaters of the Colorado River in what today is Rocky Mountain National Park. Coyote Valley is brilliant and beautiful, a must-read for anyone interested in the complex history of the nation’s iconic landscapes.
-- Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
-- Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
In this gracefully written, insightful, deeply researched history of an under-studied part of North America, Andrews tells a story of the fracturing of an environmental order. The chronological scope and interdisciplinary breadth of the work are impressive. This is environmental history at its best.
-- Andrew Isenberg, author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life
-- Andrew Isenberg, author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life
Those interested to learn how historians now write about the ever-changing dynamics among people, nature, and culture need look no further than this book. Coyote Valley defines the cutting edge of environmental history.
-- Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The Comanche Empire
-- Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The Comanche Empire
Andrews’s Coyote Valley is a marvelous example of the intersection not only of agricultural and environmental history but also of public and academic history…Andrews also makes a strong case for a deep-history approach to landscape history.
-- Joseph E. Taylor III Agricultural History
-- Joseph E. Taylor III Agricultural History
In this smart and ambitious book, Thomas G. Andrews tries to reconcile large and small by focusing on the Kawuneeche Valley of Colorado (Coyote Valley, as translated from Arapaho), a part of Rocky Mountain National Park… The many successes and occasional shortcomings of Andrews’s efforts underscore the challenges of mastering space and scale. More important, this book is a model for breaking down needless barriers between public history and academic history.
-- Matthew Klingle Journal of American History
-- Matthew Klingle Journal of American History
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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MAPS
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INTRODUCTION: Coyote Creek
1 - PART ONE: NATIVE PEOPLES
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1. EMERGENCE
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2. ENDURANCE
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3. DISPOSSESSION
63 - PART TWO: SETTLERS
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4. MINERS
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5. FARMERS
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6. CONSERVATIONISTS
138 - PART THREE: FEDS
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7. COMMON GROUND
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8. RESTORING THE VALLEY PRIMEVAL
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9. THE TRAGEDY OF THE WILLOWS
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CONCLUSION: Seeing the Forest and the Trees
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NOTES
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INDEX
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eBook published on:
October 5, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9780674495333
Edition:
Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
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Main content:
352
Other:
25 halftones, 4 maps
eBook ISBN:
9780674495333
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