Format:
Book
Title:
Prairie fire : a Great Plains history / Julie Courtwright.
Author:
Courtwright, Julie.
Call Number:
633.208918 Courtwri
Publisher, Date:
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2011.
Description:
xii, 274 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Grassland fires -- Great Plains -- History.
Grassland fires -- Great Plains -- Prevention and control -- History.
Fires -- Great Plains -- History.
Prairies -- Great Plains -- History.
Prairie ecology -- Great Plains -- History.
Human ecology -- Great Plains -- History.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History.
Great Plains -- Environmental conditions.
Great Plains -- History.
Contents:
Introduction: "Think of This" -- "Mass of Grass" -- "Putting Out Fire" -- "Master of the Prairie" -- "One First Grand Cause" -- "Fight Fire When Necessary, Fight Together, and Fight It Out" -- "A Horrible World of Cinders and Blackness" -- "Awfully Grand" -- "Burn, Prairie, Burn" -- Conclusion: "A Prairie Fire Came upon the Place."
ISBN:
9780700617944 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617949 (cloth : alk. paper)