Environmental History
Cowboy Trout: Western Fly Fishing As If It Mattersby Paul SchulleryIn Cowboy Trout, historian-angler Paul Schullery chronicles many great moments in western fly fishing, from pioneer anglers casting the first flies on wilderness streams to the unexpected modern emergence of fly fishing as a political, commercial, and even spiritual presence in the lives of many westerners. 288 pages, 30 illus., bibliography, index |
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Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wildernessby Paul Schullery"In Searching for Yellowstone [Schullery] has given us a refreshingly unhyperbolic look at the place he loves, and has thus notably honored its beauty, its mystery, its people, its past, and its future." Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness traces Yellowstone's social and ecological history from the Pleistocene to the present in a seminal work that the press is pleased to bring back into print. Paul Schullery, the former director of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, is the author of Lewis and Clark among the Grizzlies (2002) and coauthor with Lee Whittlesey of Yellowstone's Creation Myth (2003) 360 pages, illus., maps |
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Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1924by Donald MacMillanIntroduction by William L. LangSmoke Wars traces the campaign against air pollution in southwestern Montana from the fight to abolish open-heap roasting, a process that created dense clouds of low-lying, noxious smoke and caused death rates in Butte to exceed those of New York City, to the battle against toxic emissions released from the great stacks of the Anaconda Reduction Works. This landmark environmental study raises issues of corporate responsibility, the rights of citizens, and the costs of industrialization, issues still hotly contested today. 304 pages, illus., map |
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Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903by Christopher J. MagocFifty-four images of early Yellowstone illustrate this fascinating look at the early history of the park, which explores early conflicts over Yellowstone's identity. The author introduces the tastemakers, stewards, financiers, and boosters who jockeyed in turn to protect the wilderness, commodify the scenery, and exploit the park's valuable natural resources. And he finds that while Yellowstone's defenders won the battle to keep hunters and miners outside the park's borders, they did nothing to challenge the promotion of tourism and nearby industrial development that now threaten Yellowstone's ecological health. Copublished with University of New Mexico Press304 pages., 54 illus. |
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