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The rape of the Great Plains : Northwestern America, cattle and coal / K. Ross Toole.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., c1976.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 271 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0316849901
  • 9780316849906
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TD195.S75 T66
Contents:
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks TD195.S75T66 1976 1 Available 33710001137491

"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.