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Title Red Desert : history of a place / edited by Annie Proulx ; photographs by Martin Stupich.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

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 Moore Stacks  QH105.W8 R43 2008    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 400 pages : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- Natural History: -- 1. Geology of the Red Desert / Charles Ferguson -- 2. Water in the Red / Craig Thompson -- 3. Environmental Change in the Wyoming Basin's Red Desert / Dudley Gardner -- 4. Titanotheres, Time, and People: A Snapshot of Red Desert Paleontology / Tom Rea -- 5. Vertebrate Wildlife of the Red Desert / Gary P. Beauvais -- 6. Birds of the Red Desert / Andrea Orabona -- 7. Horses Come to the Red Desert / Dudley Gardner -- 8. Insects of the Red Desert: An Exercise in Scientific Humility / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- 9. Sagebrush / George P. Jones -- 10. Bright Green Hues Are Rare: Plant Diversity and Conservation in Wyoming's Red Desert / Walter and Laura Fertig -- 11. Biological (Cryptobiotic) Soil Crusts of the Red Desert / Jack States -- Human History: -- 12. Early People of the Red Desert / Dudley Gardner -- 13. The Shoshonis and Westward-Bound Emigrants / Dudley Gardner -- 14. An Anthropological Impression of Rock Art in the Greater Red Desert / Russel L. Tanner -- 15. Traversing the Desert / Annie Proulx -- 16. Forts of the Red Desert / Annie Proulx -- 17. Fort Bridger and Camps Stambaugh and Pilot Butte / Dudley Gardner -- 18. Forts Halleck and Fred Steel / Annie Proulx -- 19. The Union Pacific Railroad Arrives / Annie Proulx -- 20. The Union Pacific, the Chinese, and the Japanese / Dudley Gardner -- 21. Inhabitants of the margins / Annie Proulx -- 22. The Little Snake River Valley / Annie Proulx -- 23. Red Desert Ranches / Annie Proulx -- 24. Horse Bands of the Red Desert / Annie Proulx -- 25. Opening the Oyster / Annie Proulx -- 26. Red Desert Outlaws / Annie Proulx -- 27. History of Conservation Efforts in the Red Desert / Mac Blewer
Subject Natural history -- Wyoming -- Red Desert (Desert)
Natural history.
Wyoming -- Red Desert (Desert)
Red Desert (Wyo. : Desert) -- History.
Added Author Proulx, Annie.
ISBN 9780292714205 alkaline paper
0292714203 alkaline paper

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