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• catalog abstract ""This book is a tale of two rivers, a history of the majestic Missouri and how it was once wedded to the Yellowstone. Though quite different today - one dammed into reservoirs, the other unregulated with a semblance of wildness - they were once linked ecologically, geographically, and historically. Then in the twentieth century, Euro-Americans dismantled many of these connections and attempted to uncouple the streams." "Viewing the rivers and their surrounding lands as a living system, Robert Kelley Schneiders focuses on four components within the Upper Missouri bioregion - the Missouri River valley, the Yellowstone River valley, Homo sapiens, and bison - to show the significance of their interaction over the past two hundred years." "To frame his story, Schneiders goes back to the nineteenth-century journals of fur traders and settlers and in the record of flora, fauna, floods, and human activity he finds evidence of rapid and disruptive change. Bison once had the greatest influence on the land, and Schneiders depicts an original bison and Indian trail networks on which were overlaid the first torts and towns and then the railroads, highways, and reservoirs that reconfigured the region forever." "Schneiders explains how these geographical constructs interacted with larger demographic and economic trends in the twentieth-century West, as dams and their resultant reservoirs enhanced the federal presence in the Dakotas and eastern Montana. He describes human encroachment on the rivers and tells why the Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri but spared the Yellowstone. The engineers and their backers have so completely engineered the Missouri that few people today think of it as anything other than water. But we can reestablish our bonds to the river if we decide to let it flow once again, argues Schneiders. Removing the dams on the Missouri is the first step toward reasserting localism and grassroots democracy."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12943242.
• catalog coverage "Missouri River History.".
• catalog coverage "Missouri River Valley Environmental conditions.".
• catalog coverage "Missouri River Valley History.".
• catalog coverage "Yellowstone River History.".
• catalog coverage "Yellowstone River Valley Environmental conditions.".
• catalog coverage "Yellowstone River Valley History.".
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""Schneiders explains how these geographical constructs interacted with larger demographic and economic trends in the twentieth-century West, as dams and their resultant reservoirs enhanced the federal presence in the Dakotas and eastern Montana. He describes human encroachment on the rivers and tells why the Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri but spared the Yellowstone. The engineers and their backers have so completely engineered the Missouri that few people today think of it as anything other than water. But we can reestablish our bonds to the river if we decide to let it flow once again, argues Schneiders. Removing the dams on the Missouri is the first step toward reasserting localism and grassroots democracy."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""This book is a tale of two rivers, a history of the majestic Missouri and how it was once wedded to the Yellowstone. Though quite different today - one dammed into reservoirs, the other unregulated with a semblance of wildness - they were once linked ecologically, geographically, and historically. Then in the twentieth century, Euro-Americans dismantled many of these connections and attempted to uncouple the streams." "Viewing the rivers and their surrounding lands as a living system, Robert Kelley Schneiders focuses on four components within the Upper Missouri bioregion - the Missouri River valley, the Yellowstone River valley, Homo sapiens, and bison - to show the significance of their interaction over the past two hundred years."".
• catalog description ""To frame his story, Schneiders goes back to the nineteenth-century journals of fur traders and settlers and in the record of flora, fauna, floods, and human activity he finds evidence of rapid and disruptive change. Bison once had the greatest influence on the land, and Schneiders depicts an original bison and Indian trail networks on which were overlaid the first torts and towns and then the railroads, highways, and reservoirs that reconfigured the region forever."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-359) and index.".
• catalog description "The Upper Missouri : character and ecology in the early nineteenth century -- Bison world : migration routes and the Missouri and Yellowstone main stems -- Buffalo people : the influence of bison on indigenous culture, history, and geography -- Explorers beyond the Platte : Lewis and Clark and early Euro-American history -- In search of place : the Sioux and Euro-America -- To the horizon : the Teton Sioux move west -- A hydraulic empire : the Corps of Engineers and the Reclamation Service -- Try and try again : schemes to dam the Yellowstone -- Vanishing act : Pick, Sloan, the Upper Missouri, and Yellowstone -- The world we have wrought : current ecological and geographic status of the Upper Missouri.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 374 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Big sky rivers.".
• catalog identifier "0700612645 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Big sky rivers.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lawrence : University Press of Kansas,".
• catalog relation "Big sky rivers.".
• catalog spatial "Missouri River History.".
• catalog spatial "Missouri River Valley Environmental conditions.".
• catalog spatial "Missouri River Valley History.".
• catalog spatial "Missouri River Valley".
• catalog spatial "Missouri River Valley.".
• catalog spatial "Yellowstone River History.".
• catalog spatial "Yellowstone River Valley Environmental conditions.".
• catalog spatial "Yellowstone River Valley History.".
• catalog spatial "Yellowstone River Valley".
• catalog spatial "Yellowstone River Valley.".
• catalog subject "978 21".
• catalog subject "F737.Y4 S37 2003".
• catalog subject "Indians of North America Missouri River Valley History.".
• catalog subject "Indians of North America Yellowstone River Valley History.".
• catalog subject "Natural history Missouri River Valley.".
• catalog subject "Natural history Yellowstone River Valley.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Upper Missouri : character and ecology in the early nineteenth century -- Bison world : migration routes and the Missouri and Yellowstone main stems -- Buffalo people : the influence of bison on indigenous culture, history, and geography -- Explorers beyond the Platte : Lewis and Clark and early Euro-American history -- In search of place : the Sioux and Euro-America -- To the horizon : the Teton Sioux move west -- A hydraulic empire : the Corps of Engineers and the Reclamation Service -- Try and try again : schemes to dam the Yellowstone -- Vanishing act : Pick, Sloan, the Upper Missouri, and Yellowstone -- The world we have wrought : current ecological and geographic status of the Upper Missouri.".
• catalog title "Big sky rivers : the Yellowstone & Upper Missouri / Robert Kelley Schneiders.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".