The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture)

By Elliott West and Cameron West

Book Overview

This poignant history of the great migrations of the Cheyenne Indians and Anglo pioneers onto the arid Central Plains tells a complex story of the relationship between people and the environment.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826316522
• ISBN13: 9780826316523
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Informative study of the Great Plains

West examines relations between Native Americans, Americans, bison and the environment of the Great Plains. His explanation of environmental factors in depletion of the buffalo herds is very valuable in understanding what was happening on the Plains during the middle of the 19th century.