Recent Scholarship
Environment and Natural Resources
Alley, Bill, “Crashing Timbers, Ice Floods, and Movie Stars: Universal Studios Comes to Klamath Falls,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 96 (Fall 2005), 181–86. Heavily illustrated.
Crum, Steven, “Native Americans, the Lehman Caves, and Great Basin National Park,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 48 (Fall 2005), 347–68.
Falck, Zachary, and Marijke Hecht, “The Sewering and Salvaging of Nine Mile Run,” Western Pennsylvania History, 89 (Spring 2006), 40–50.
Graves, Gregory R., “The Rhetoric of Opposition: Anticonservation and the Early Forest Reserves,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 11–17. Heavily illustrated.
Hawkins, Rusty, “John C. Williams and West Texas Reclamation,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 77 (2004), 33–46.
Kinchy, Abby, “On the Borders of Post-war Ecology: Struggles over the Ecological Society of America’s Preservation Committee, 1917–1946,” Science as Culture (London), 15 (March 2006), 23–44.
Louter, David B., “Wilderness on Display: Shifting Ideals of Cars and National Parks,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 29–38. Heavily illustrated.
McLeman, Robert, “Migration Out of 1930s Rural Eastern Oklahoma: Insights for Climate Change Research,” Great Plains Quarterly, 26 (Winter 2006), 27–40.
McQuaid, Kim, “Selling the Space Age: nasa and Earth’s Environment, 1958–1990,” Environment and History (Cambridge), 12 (May 2006), 127–63.
Mighetto, Lisa, “The Strange Fate of the Black River: How Urban Engineering Shaped Lake Washington and the Duwamish River Watershed,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 47–57. Heavily illustrated.
Mosley, Stephen, “Common Ground: Integrating Social And Environmental History,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Spring 2006), 915–33.
Norris, Frank, “A Room with a View: Controversies over Hotel Development in Mount McKinley National Park, 1927–1970,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 96 (Fall 2005), 171–80. Heavily illustrated.
Park, Jinbin, “Jeongwondosi wha Dosigaehwoik eui Migukgeok Jeongae” (The Garden City movement and city planning in the United States), Soyangsaron/Korean Journal of Western History (Seoul), 84 (March 2005), 143–68. In Korean.
Sowards, Adam M., “William O. Douglas’s Wilderness Politics: Public Protest and Committees of Correspondence in the Pacific Northwest,” Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Spring 2006), 21–42.
Sowards, Adam, “Modern Ahabs in Texas: William O. Douglas and Lone Star Conservation,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 39–46. Heavily illustrated.
Tilley, David Rogers, “National Metabolism and Communications Technology Development in the United States, 1790–2000,” Environment and History (Cambridge), 12 (May 2006), 165–90.
Winchester, Juti A., “‘So Glad God Let Me Be an Outdoor Woman’: The Conservationist Writings of Sharlot Mabridth Hall,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 18–25. Heavily illustrated.
Young, T., “False, Cheap, and Degraded: When History, Economy, and Environment Collided at Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 32 (Jan. 2006), 169–89.
Ackerman, Joy Whiteley, “Walden: A Sacred Geography” (Antioch New England Graduate School, 2005). Order No. DA3181625.
Gruber, Laura Katherine, “Unstable Geographies: Context, Representation, and Ideology in American Western Writing, 1885–1927” (Washington State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184142.
Helmer, Joel William, “Float Trips, Dams, and Tailwater Trout: An Environmental History of the White River of Northern Arkansas, 1870–2004” (Oklahoma State University, 2005). Order No. DA3181657.
Krahe, Diane L., “Last Refuge: The Uneasy Embrace of Indian Lands by the National Wilderness Movement, 1937–1965” (Washington State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184149.
Lifset, Robert Douglas, “Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism, 1962–1980” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3182964.
McFarland, Sarah Elizabeth, “Engendering the Wild: The Construction of Animals in Twentieth Century Nature Writing” (University of Oregon, 2005). Order No. DA3181112.
Smalley, Andrea L., “‘The liberty of killing a deer’: Histories of Wildlife Use and Political Ecology in Early America” (Northern Illinois University, 2005). Order No. DA3185449.
Waldner, Leora Susan, “Regional Plans, Local Fates? The Influence of the 1976 and 1985 Atlanta Regional Development Plans on Local Government Policy” (University of California, Berkeley, 2003). Order No. DA3183872.
Black, Brian, Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xvi, 239 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-313-33201-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Evans, Sterling, ed., The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxxvi, 386 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8032-1826-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Hall, Marcus, Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xviii, 310 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8139-2341-7.)
Kaufman, Polly Welts, National Parks and the Woman’s Voice: A History. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xxxviii, 312 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8263-3994-8.) Updated edition.
Layman, William D., River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xvi, 150 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 0-295-98591-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-295-98592-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Zebrowski, Ernest, and Judith A. Howard, Category 5: The Story of Camille — Lessons Unlearned from America’s Most Violent Hurricane. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xii, 276 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-472-11525-1.)
Melzer, Richard, “Leonard W. ‘Si’ Porter’s Memories of Life in the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps of Southern New Mexico, 1936–1939,” New Mexico Historical Review, 80 (Fall 2005), 417–36.
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