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Paperback The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains Book

ISBN: 0826316530

ISBN13: 9780826316530

The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains

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This poignant history of the great migrations of the Cheyenne Indians and Anglo pioneers onto the arid Central Plains tells a complex story of the relationship between people and the environment. Elliott West, a distinguished western historian, turns his attention here to land, animals, families, and stories. Focusing on a region embracing parts of present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, he examines both the facts and myths of the...

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Informative study of the Great Plains

West examines relations between Native Americans, Americans, bison and the environment of the Great Plains. His explanation of environmental factors in depletion of the buffalo herds is very valuable in understanding what was happening on the Plains during the middle of the 19th century.
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