The rape of the Great Plains : Northwestern America, cattle and coal / K. Ross Toole.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., c1976.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 271 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN:- 0316849901
- 9780316849906
- TD195.S75 T66
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"An Atlantic monthly press book."
sect. 1. People and exploiters. 1. The Northern Great Plains -- 2. The Indians : the Cheyenne and the Crow -- 3. The most important tribe in this country -- 4. The ordeal of the cattlemen -- 5. Taxes and communities -- sect. 2. The fragile land. 6. When the people flooded in -- 7. Reclamation : lipstick on a corpse -- 8. Water, water, nowhere? -- 9. How to get a shock out of farming : transmission lines -- sect. 3. A national sacrifice area? 10. What we don't know WILL hurt us -- 11. Montanans fight back -- 12. Montana as a national heritage -- 13. Of mirrors and idols.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-253) and index.