MIDWEST

Indigenous Peoples

Bieder, Robert E. Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: A Study of Tradition and Change. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Brown, Jennifer S. H., W. J. Eccles, and Donald P. Heldman, eds. The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1994.

 Grant, Frank R., et al. The Forests of Anishinabe: A History of Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Forestry, 1854-1991. Missoula, MT: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Forestry, 1992.

 Meyer, Melissa L. "`We Can Not Get a Living as We Used To': Dispossession and the White Earth Anishinaabeg, 1889-1920." American Historical Review 96 (April 1991): 368-394.

 Meyer, Melissa L. The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

 Nairne, Thomas. Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River. Edited, with an introduction, by Alexander Moore. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

 O'Brien, Michael J., et al. Grassland, Forest, and Historical Settlement: An Analysis of Dynamics in Northeast Missouri. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

 Rafert, Stewart. The Miami Indians of Indiana: A Persistent People, 1654-1994. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996.

Satz, Ronald N. "Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective." Transactions 79, no. 1 (1991): xix-25.

 White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region: 1650-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

 Wishart, David J. An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

Flora and Fauna

Beck, David R. M. "The Importance of Sturgeon in Menominee Indian History." Wisconsin Magazine of History 79 (Autumn 1995): 32-48.

 Blair, James P. "A Portrait of the Missouri Botanical Garden: The Plant Hunters." National Geographic 178, no. 2 (August 1990): 124-141.

 Campbell, Louis W. The Marshes of Southwestern Lake Erie. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995.

 Chadwick, Douglas H. "What Good Is a Prairie?" Audubon 97, no. 6 (November/December 1995): 36-50.

 Chadwick, Douglas H., and Jim Brandenburg. "The American Prairie: Roots of the Sky." National Geographic 184, no. 4 (October 1993): 90-120.

 Dalke, Paul D., A. Starker Leopold, and David L. Spencer. The Ecology and Management of the Wild Turkey in Missouri. Jefferson City, MO: Conservation Commission, Federal Aid- Wildlife Program, State of Missouri, 1946.

 Durbin, Richard D. The Wisconsin River. Madison: The University of Washington Press, 1998.

Gammon, James R. The Wabash River Ecosystem. Plainfield, IN: Cinergy Corporation, 1998.

 Madson, John. Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie. Revised ed. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1995.

 Mahan, John, and Ann Mahan. Wild Lake Michigan. Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 1991.

 Mecozzi, Maureen. "It Started with Fire." Wisconsin Natural Resources 18 (February 1994): 1-16.

 Metcoff, Jill. Along the Wisconsin Riverway. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

 Orsi, Jared. "From Horicon to Hamburgers and Back Again: Ecology, Ideology, and Wildfowl Management, 1917-1935." Environmental History Review 18 (Winter 1994): 19-40.

 Patterson, Rich. "Fire in the Oaks." American Forests 98 (November/December 1992): 58-59.

 Platt, Carolyn V. "On Branch and Vine: Ohio's Fruits and Nuts." Timeline 8 (August/September 1991): 34-41.

 Prince, Hugh. Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Scarpino, Philip. Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1950. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985.

 Sieber, Ellen, and Cheryl Ann Munson. Looking at History: Indiana's Hoosier National Forest Region, 1600-1950. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Printing Office, 1992.

 Thiel, Richard P. The Timber Wolf in Wisconsin: The Death and Life of a Majestic Predator. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.

 Williams, Ted. "The River Always Wins." Audubon 96, no. 4 (July/August 1994): 78-91.
 
 

Agriculture

Davis, Mark. "Northern Choices: Rural Forest County in the 1920s: Part I." Wisconsin Magazine of History 79 (Autumn 1995): 3-31.

 Davis, Mark. "Northern Choices: Rural Forest County in the 1920s: Part II." Wisconsin Magazine of History 79 (Winter 1995/96): 109-138.

 Faragher, John Mack. Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

 Hamilton, David E. From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928-1933. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

 McIsaac, Gregory, and William R. Edwards. Sustainable Agriculture in the American Midwest: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Nelson, Daniel. Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Page, B., and R. Walker. "From Settlement to Fordism: The Agro-Industrial Revolution in the American Mid-West." Economic Geography 67 (1991): 281-315.

 Schuyler, Michael W. "New Deal Farm Policy in the Middle West: A Retrospective View." Journal of the West 33, no. 4 (October 1994).

 Ulrich, Hugh. Losing Ground: Agricultural Policy and the Decline of the American Farm. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1989.

 Whayne, Jeannie M. A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth- Century Arkansas. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.

Industrialization

Anfinson, John O. "The Secret History of the Mississippi's Earliest Locks and Dams." Minnesota History 54 (Summer 1995): 254-267.

 Bajema, Carl. "Timber Express." Michigan History 77 (November/December 1993): 42-46.

 Bell, Mary T. Cutting Across Time: Logging, Rafting, and Milling the Forests of Lake Superior. Schroeder, MN: Schroeder Area Historical Society, 1999.

Carrels, Peter. Uphills Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1991.

 Ellis, William, and Jim Richardson. "The Mississippi: River Under Siege" (The Challenge of Pollution). National Geographic 184, no. n5A (November 1, 1993): 90-104.

 Hurley, Andrew. "Fiasco at Wagner Electric: Environmental Justice and Urban Geography in St. Louis." Environmental History 2.4 (Oct. 1997): 460-481.

Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

 Johns, Larry. "The Thunder Lake Narrow Gauge Logging Railroad." Northern Logger and Timber Processor 44 (September 1995): 24-45.

 McDevitt, Robert, ed. From Sawmills to Villages. Marion, WI: Marion Advertiser, 1992.

 Miller, Herman Lunden. Lumbering in Early Twentieth Century Michigan, The Kneeland-Bigelow Company Experience. Lewiston, Michigan: Walnut Hill Press, 1995.

 Owens, Harry P. Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.

 Pfaff, Tim. Settlement and Survival: Building Towns in the Chippewa Valley, 1850-1925. Eau Claire, WI: Chippewa Valley Museum Press, 1994.

 Ryan, J. C. "Who Logged Here?" Timber Bulletin 49 (October/November 1994): 18-21.

 Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. London: W. Heinemann, 1905.

 Thorson, John E. River of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Turner, R. Eugene, and Nancy N. Rabalais. "Changes in Mississippi River Water Quality this Century." BioScience 41, no. 3 (March 1991): 140-148.

 Wolff, Julius F., Jr. "Hazards for Hookers: The Lumber Ships of Lake Superior. Part I." Inland Seas 50 (Fall 1994): 161-177.

 Wolff, Julius F., Jr. "Hazards for Hookers: The Lumber Ships of Lake Superior. Part II." Inland Seas 50 (Winter 1994): 266-276.

 Young, Janet. "Mason: A Lumbermill Town." Historical Happenings 15 (Spring 1994): 1-2, 8.
 
 

Culture

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.

 Anderson, Dean L. "Breaking the Myth." Michigan History Magazine 79 (July/August 1995): 26- 31.

 Backes, David. Canoe Country: An Embattled Wilderness. Minocqua: WI: NorthWord Press, 1991.

 Bean, Jonathan J. "Marketing `the great American commodity': Nathaniel Massie and Land Speculation on the Ohio Frontier, 1783-1813." Ohio History 103 (Summer/Autumn 1994): 152-169.

 Bliss, John C. "Evidence of Ethnicity: Management Styles of Forest Owners in Wisconsin." Forest & Conservation History 36 (April 1992): 63-72.

 Charles, Gordon. A Boy, A Bike and Buster: Fishing and Hunting in Michigan's Good Old Days. Traverse City, MI: Traverse City Outdoor Press, 1995.

 Codrescu, Andrei. "Down in the Flood." Sierra 79, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 84-91.

 Critchfield, Richard. Trees, Why Do You Wait? America's Changing Rural Culture. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1991.

 Dougan, Michael B. Arkansas Odyssey: The Saga of Arkansas from Prehistoric Times to Present: A History. Little Rock, AR: Rose Pub. Co., 1994.

Drache, Hiram M. Taming the Wilderness: The Northern Border Country, 1910-1939. Danville, IL: Interstate Publishers, 1992.

 Flader, Susan, ed. The Great Lakes Forests: An Environmental and Social History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

 Gilman, Carolyn. The Grand Portage Story. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992.

 Gough, Robert J. "Richard T. Ely and the Development of the Wisconsin Cutover." Wisconsin Magazine of History 75 (Autumn 1991): 3-38.

 Hafen, LeRoy R., ed. Fur Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

 Hamerstrom, Frances. My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

 Hurley, Andrew, ed. Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Hurley, Andrew. "The Social Bases of Environmental Change in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980." Environmental Review 12 (1988): 1-19.

 Johnson, Benjamin Heber. "Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest." Environmental History 4, no. 1 (January 1999): 80-99.

Lass, William E. "The Eden of the West." Minnesota History 56 (Winter 1998-1999): 202-14.

Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. "A Telling Tirade: What Was the Controversy Surrounding Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Tree Agents Really All About?" Agricultural History 72 (Fall 1998): 675-707.

Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Pallante, Martha. "The Trek West: Early Travel Narratives and Perceptions of the Frontier." Michigan Historical Review 21 (Spring 1995): 83-99.

 Reid, Robert L, ed. Always a River: The Ohio River and the American Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

 Thomas, Christine L. "Wilhelmine LaBudde." Wisconsin Natural Resources 18 (February 1994): 17-23.

 Walters, William D., Jr., and Jonathan Smith. "Woodland and Prairie Settlement in Illinois, 1830-70." Forest & Conservation History 36 (January 1992): 15-21.

 Wright-Peterson, Ralph. "Benny Ambrose: Life in the Boundary Waters." Minnesota History 54 (Fall 1994): 124-137.

 Zwinger, Ann. "Remembering Indiana (Land and Environment)." Audubon 97, no. 1 (January/February 1995): 105-110.
 
 

Landscape and Land Use

Backes, David. "Wilderness Visions: Arthur Carhart's 1922 Proposal for the Quetico-Superior Wilderness." Forest and Conservation History 35 (July 1991): 128-137.

Cronon, William. "Landscape and Home: Environmental Traditions in Wisconsin." Wisconsin Magazine of History 74 (Winter 1991): 83-105.

 Matthews, Greg, and Neal Kephart. "The Park at the Crossroads of History." Wisconsin Natural Resources 16 (August 1992): 22-27.

 McCorvie, Mary R., and Christopher L. Lant. "Drainage District Formation and the Loss of Midwestern Wetlands, 1850-1930." Agricultural History 67 (Fall 1993): 13-39.

 Melcher, Nick B., and Charles Parrett. "1993 Upper Mississippi River Floods." Geotimes 38, no. 12 (December 1993): 15-18.

 Reid, Robert. Always a River: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
 
 

Environmental Policy and Conservation

Bogue, Margaret Beattie. "To Save the Fish: Canada, the United States, the Great Lakes, and the Join Commission of 1892." Journal of American History 79, no. 4 (March 1993): 1429-1455.

 Conard, Rebecca. "Hot Kitchens in Places of Quiet Beauty: Iowa State Parks and the Transformation of Conservationist Goals." Annals of Iowa 51 (Summer 1992): 441-479.

 Gates, Paul W. The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University: A Study in Land Policy and Absentee Ownership. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1943.

 Huffman, Thomas R. Protectors of the Land and Water: Environmentalism in Wisconsin, 1961-1968. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

 Humberger, Charles E. "The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nebraska: Memoirs of Company 762." Nebraska History 75 (Winter 1994): 292-300.

 Lehmann, Richard A. "The Laws of the Land." Wisconsin Natural Resources 17 (June 1993): 4-7.

 Melosi, Martin V., ed. Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.

 Robinson, Ann, and Robbin Marks. "Life on the Mississippi: A Century After Twain, America's Greatest River Needs Help." Amicus Journal 16, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 32-36.

 Thomas, Christine L. "One Hundred Twenty Years of Citizen Involvement with the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board." Environmental History Review 15 (Spring 1991): 61-81.