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Environmental History -- American West
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the environmental history of the American West.

Six Superlative Sources

· Elliott West, THE WAY TO THE WEST: ESSAYS ON THE CENTRAL PLAINS (University of New Mexico Press, 1995).

· Richard White, THE ORGANIC MACHINE: THE REMAKING OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER (Hill and Wang, 1995).

· Donald Worster, RIVERS OF EMPIRE: WATER, ARIDITY AND THE GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN WEST (Pantheon, 1985).

· Mark Spence, DISPOSSESSING THE WILDERNESS: INDIAN REMOVAL AND THE MAKING OF THE NATIONAL PARKS (Oxford University Press, 1999).

· Mike Davis, ECOLOGY OF FEAR: LOS ANGELES AND THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER (Metropolitan Books, 1998).

· Arthur F. McEvoy, THE FISHERMAN'S PROBLEM: ECOLOGY AND LAW IN THE CALIFORNIA FISHERIES, 1850-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1986).

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