The Great Plains : a fire survey / Stephen J. Pyne.

Author
Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, 2017.
Description
x, 215 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

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    Series
    • Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- To the last smoke ; v. 5. [More in this series]
    • To the last smoke / series by Stephen J. Pyne ; volume 5
    Summary note
    "Provides a wide look at plains wildland fire in the 21st century and how it is interconnected with other themes of life and culture in the Midwest"--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Prologue : These Once-Conflagrated Prairies
    • Geographies of Place and Mind. The Fixed and the Fluid : Hard and Soft Geographies of the Plains
    • Grass : A Pyric Primer
    • Seasons of Burning : Prairie Fire in American Culture
    • Plains, Great and Small. Pleistocene Meets Pyrocene
    • Ecotone
    • Niobrara
    • Sandhills
    • The Nebraska
    • Loess Hills
    • Konza
    • Patch-Burning
    • Texas Takes on Fire : A Reconnaissance
    • Outliers. People of the Prairie, People of the Fire
    • Wichita Mountains
    • The Blackened Hills
    • Epilogue : The Great Plains Between Two Fires.
    ISBN
    • 9780816535125 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
    • 0816535124 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2016039131
    OCLC
    961206903
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