Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue 1
4. Part 1 Streams of the Shortgrass Prairie: The South Platte River Basin
5. One At the Headwaters 15
6. Two Onto the Plains 33
7. Three River Metamorphosis 61
8. Four What the Future Holds 125
9. Part 2 Streams of the Tallgrass Prairi e : The Illinois River Basin
10. Five Natural History of the Illinois River 149
11. Six Native Americans and the First European Settlers 193
12. Seven Twentieth-Century River Metamorphosis 219
13. Eight What the Future Holds 287
14. Epilogue 311
15. 9 English-Metric Unit Conversions 317
16. Selected Bibliography 319
17. Index 339