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The rape of the Great Plains : Northwestern America, cattle and coal / K. Ross Toole.

Toole, K. Ross (Kenneth Ross), 1920-1981 (Author).

Summary:

Explores the coal-mining and utility interests that are preparing to stripmine the Northern Great Plains, the issues involved, the struggle with local citizens, and alternatives.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316849901
  • ISBN: 9780316849906
  • Physical Description: ix, 271 pages : map ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., �1976.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"An Atlantic monthly press book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
sect. 1. People and exploiters. 1. The Northern Great Plains -- 2. The Indians : the Cheyenne and the Crow -- 3. The most important tribe in this country -- 4. The ordeal of the cattlemen -- 5. Taxes and communities -- sect. 2. The fragile land. 6. When the people flooded in -- 7. Reclamation : lipstick on a corpse -- 8. Water, water, nowhere? -- 9. How to get a shock out of farming : transmission lines -- sect. 3. A national sacrifice area? 10. What we don't know WILL hurt us -- 11. Montanans fight back -- 12. Montana as a national heritage -- 13. Of mirrors and idols.

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Subject:
Strip mining > Environmental aspects > Montana.
Electric power-plants > Environmental aspects > Montana.
Montana > Economic conditions.
Environmental protection > Montana.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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