Rewilding the west: restoration in a prairie landscape.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Presents an account of the American plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American enterprise to today. This book discovers how key elements of the American story - conservation, the New Deal, progressivism, the yeoman myth, and the idea of private property - have collided with and shaped this incomparable landscape.