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The rape of the Great Plains : Northwestern America, cattle and coal / K. Ross Toole.
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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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | TD 195 .C58 T66 1976 | 274267 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |