Bøger af Todd M. Kerstetter

From a perspective unusual on the Great Plains - the problem of too much water - Flood on the Tracks offers an intimate portrait of life in the Elkhorn River Basin of northeast Nebraska. Using Plains Indian winter counts, postcards, photographs, newspaper accounts, government records, and more, this volume chronicles the river's natural and human history to the present day.

From a perspective unusual on the Great Plains--the problem of too much water--Flood on the Tracks offers an intimate portrait of life in the Elkhorn River Basin of northeast Nebraska. In a region often defined by aridity, rivers and their basins have provided sustenance, shelter, fertile soil, and overland highways. In many ways Plains rivers o...

How and why three emerging religious groups failed to find a peaceful home in a purportedly tolerant region