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Beyond the stony mountains : nature in the American west from Lewis and Clark to today / Daniel B. Botkin.

by Botkin, Daniel B.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)

Natural history -- West (U.S.)

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003016664.html

0195162439 (alk. paper) :

xvii, 284 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Partially settled landscape : Lewis and Clark near St. Louis -- Changing old river -- Countryside pleasant, rich, and partially settled : through the eastern woodlands -- Into the tall-grass prairie -- Restoring the lower Missouri River -- Fire, wind, and water : the Platte River and the Loess Hills within the prairies -- Winter on the plains : Lewis and Clark among the Mandans -- America's Serengeti -- Scenes of visionary enchantment : the upper Missouri -- "Pleasingly beautiful" and "sublimely grand" : pathways to the mountains -- Passage steep and stoney, strewn with fallen timber : the Bitterroot Mountains.

Roll on, Columbia, roll on : down the Snake and Columbia Rivers -- Changing old forests at the mouth of the Columbia -- In the wake of Lewis and Clark.

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