The future of the Southern Plains

Book

The future of the Southern Plains / edited by Sherry L. Smith.

Smith, Sherry L. (Sherry Lynn), 1951- (Added Author).

Summary:

"In The Future of the Southern Plains scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its future. The contributors, some of them natives of the region, bring to their work a blend of scholarship and personal experience."

"Seven historians, one geographer, and a paleoclimatologist contribute a wealth of observation, analysis, and commentary on the environmental characteristics and history of the Southern Plains. They address such themes as failing communities, scarce water, endangered species, and disappearing ways of life - and the possible results of these developments not only in the Southern Plains but elsewhere on the globe."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0806135530
ISBN: 9780806135533
Physical Description: xii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Papers based on a joint William B. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and Dept. of History Sharpe Symposium held at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex. in spring 2001.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Trails and footprints : the past of the future Southern Plains / Elliott West -- When corporations rule the Llano Estacado : the glorious past and uncertain future of the Southern High Plains family farm / John Miller Morris -- Droughts of the past, implications for the future? / Connie Woodhouse -- A tale of two water management districts : saving a working future for the High Plains / John Opie -- Exploitationists and depletionists : petroleum in the future of the Southern Plains / Diana Davids Olien -- Identity and conservative politics on the Southern Plains / Jeff Roche -- Hispanics on the Texas South Plains / Yolanda Romero -- Loving the plains, hating the plains, restoring the plains / Dan Flores.