Beyond the stony mountains : nature in the American west from Lewis and Clark to today

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

In this work, Dan Botkin, leading ecologist, follows the course of the Lewis and Clark expedition, eco-region by eco-region, showing the land and environment that the expedition explored, and how the personal qualities and preconceptions that Lewis and Clark brought to the expedition influenced what...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Botkin, Daniel B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Lewis and Clark Expedition > (1804-1806)
Natural history > West (U.S.)
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
Natural history
West United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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