Description |
1 online resource (x, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file PDF |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Emergence -- Endurance -- Dispossession -- Settlers -- Miners -- Farmers -- Conservationists -- Feds -- Common ground -- Restoring the valley primeval -- The tragedy of the willows -- Conclusion : Seeing the forest and the trees. |
Summary |
Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the environmental and historical pressures that have shaped and reshaped one small stretch of North America, from the last ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and the latest controversies over climate change. Large-scale historical approaches continue to make monumental contributions to our understanding of the past, Andrews writes. But they are incapable of revealing everything we need to know about the interconnected workings of nature and human history. Alongside native peoples, miners, homesteaders, tourists, and conservationists, Andrews considers elk, willows, gold, mountain pine beetles, and the Colorado River as vital historical subjects. Integrating evidence from several historical fields with insights from ecology, archaeology, geology, and wildlife biology, this work simultaneously invites scientists to take history seriously and prevails upon historians to give other ways of knowing the past the attention they deserve. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
In English. |
Subject |
Rocky Mountain National Park (Colo.) -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Colorado -- Kawuneeche Valley -- History.
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Indians of North America. |
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Colorado -- Kawuneeche Valley. |
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History. |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado -- Kawuneeche Valley.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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Tourism -- Environmental aspects -- Colorado -- Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Tourism -- Environmental aspects. |
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Colorado -- Rocky Mountain National Park. |
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Tourism. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Colorado -- Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Title |
Deep history in the high Rockies |
Other Form: |
Print version: Andrews, Thomas G., 1972- Coyote Valley 9780674088573 (DLC) 2015009840 (OCoLC)914417660 |
ISBN |
9780674495333 (electronic book) |
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0674495330 (electronic book) |
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9780674088573 |
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0674088573 |
Standard No. |
10.4159/9780674495333 |
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40025286367 |
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