Dan Flores is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana, Missoula. His many books include TheNatural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains and Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in theNear Southwest.
"American Serengeti is another of Dan Flores's signature
examinations of environmental and cultural history."--Pacific
Historical Review"This book is well researched, topical, and
beautifully written."--Journal of American History"Dan Flores makes
an important contribution to our knowledge about the history of the
Great Plains. It is big history that brings the depth of time to
the present and helps us see the Great Plains and its large animals
in an immediacy that heretofore has been overlooked. . . . This is
an insightful, engaging, beautifully written story about the large
animals that once lived abundantly in the Great Plains. Flores is a
veteran historian who can turn a skillful phrase with great wit.
The result is a cogently argued, perceptive history. It is
essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Great
Plains."--Annals of Wyoming"The strongest chapters. . . present
comprehensive syntheses of existing scholarship, while offering
fresh insights and understandings developed during Flores' lifetime
of study and reflection as well as his personal immersion in the
region, including observations of surveyed animals."--,
b>Nebraska History"In a way both subtle and important, Flores
offers an answer to the recent flurry of interest in the
Anthropocene, that unofficial recent period of geological and
climate history influence by human activity. American Serengeti
reveals the significance of placing human contributions and
disruptions into a longer historical narrative."--Western
Historical Quarterly"An excellent work of environmental
history."--Chronicles of Oklahoma"Flores provides a sharpened focus
with a richly detailed examination of six large species common in
the 1840s. His writing is never dull and frequently bites with
wit."--Mountain Town News"A passionate elegy to the American Great
Plains and their former fauna. Historian Dan Flores draws deeply
from his professional expertise and life as a denizen of this
eco-region to create a poetic book that functions as both
conservation manifesto and memoir. Writing for a general audience,
the author masterfully renders an evocative portrait to elucidate
all that has been lost--vast herds of free-ranging antelope and
bison, with attendant predators such as wolves, coyotes, and
grizzly bears."--Choice"A fascinating and approachable book that is
suitable for students, scholars and nonacademic audiences who enjoy
reading about the intersections between natural history and the
environmental history of the American West."--H-Net Reviews
"A big and haunting history stuffed with big animals and big ideas
that reveals the fragility and resilience of the Great Plains
ecosystem over the past 10,000 years." --Karl Jacoby, author of
Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden
History of American Conservation"American Serengeti is Dan Flores's
love song to the Great Plains, with each verse a fond embrace of
one of its own--grizzlies and bison, pronghorns and coyotes.
Beautifully written, it strikes just the right note for those of us
drawn to this magnificent part of America. For those yet to know
it, this book is a loving invitation to come and see."--Elliott
West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the
Rush to Colorado"A highly personal book reflecting the vast
knowledge of a leading cultural and environmental
historian."--David Dary, author of The Buffalo Book and True Tales
of the Prairies and Plains"Dan Flores has written an engaging and
provocative account of ecological change in the Great Plains by
tracing the interaction of the large animals and humans in this
grassland during the past 13,000 years. This is a book worth
reading by anyone interested in the history of the American
West."--R. Douglas Hurt, Head Fellow of the Agricultural History
Society, Associate Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies"As
sweeping and expansive as the Great Plains themselves, Dan Flores's
American Serengeti is 'Big History' at its best. Personal,
passionate, and scholarly, his essays on pronghorns, coyotes,
horses, grizzly bears, bison, and wolves give these ancient,
durable animals their historical due."--Frank Van Nuys, author of
Varmints and Victims: Predator Control in the American West
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