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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948- author.     Subjects     Animals -- Great Plains -- History.     Herbivores -- Great Plains -- History.     Predatory animals -- Great Plains -- History.     Grassland animals -- Great Plains -- History.     Grassland ecology -- Great Plains.     Natural history -- Great Plains.     Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History.     Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Plains -- History.     Environmental degradation -- Great Plains -- History.     Wildlife conservation -- Great Plains -- History.     Great Plains -- History.     Great Plains -- Environmental conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948- author.       by title:      American Serengeti :...         MARC Display

American Serengeti : the last big animals of the Great Plains / Dan Flores. by Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948- author. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, c2016. Subjects Animals -- Great Plains -- History.   Herbivores -- Great Plains -- History.   Predatory animals -- Great Plains -- History.   Grassland animals -- Great Plains -- History.   Grassland ecology -- Great Plains.   Natural history -- Great Plains.   Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History.   Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Plains -- History.   Environmental degradation -- Great Plains -- History.   Wildlife conservation -- Great Plains -- History.   Great Plains -- History.   Great Plains -- Environmental conditions. Electronic Resource http://www.netread.com/jcusers/1336/3148824/image/lgcover.9780700622276.jpg ISBN:  9780700622276 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0700622276 (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents:  Introduction: American Serengeti -- 1. Empires of the Sun : Big History and the Great Plains -- 2. Pronghorns : Survivors from a Lost World -- 3. Coyote : The American Jackal -- 4. Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses : The Horse Trade and the American Great Plains -- 5. The Most Dangerous Beast : The Grizzly, the Great Plains, and the West -- 6. A Dream of Bison -- 7. Wolfsong Redux -- 8. Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Re-Wilding the Plains. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Bison. Horses. Coyotes. Wolves. Grizzly Bears. Pronghorns. A la John McPhee and Edward Hoagland, noted Western and environmental historian Flores dazzles with his vivid, informed, and richly detailed essays on six iconic animals of the American Great Plains. Diving into their genetic past as far back as the Pleistocene epoch and on up to restoration efforts in recent times, Flores is especially evocative and illuminating about the lives of these animals (and their interactions with humans) in the several centuries running from the dawn of the Age of Exploration through the end of the Indian Wars"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 591.50978 Fl Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Nonfiction 591.50978 Fl Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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