Books written by Andrew C. Isenberg
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Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life
11. aging fighter, jack Brennan, facing a younger, brutish challenger, Walcott. When criminals instruct Brennan that he must lose to protect their bet on Walcott, Brennan accepts his fate and bets $50,000 on his opponent.
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Mining California: An Ecological History
... and Conservationist, in Twentieth-Century America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997); Stephen Aron, “Pigs and Hunters: 'Rights in the Woods on the Trans-Appalachian Frontier,” in Andrew R. L. Cayton and Frederike Teute, eds., ...
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920
A typical hunting outfit consisted of a shooter, a cook, and three or four skinners. John Cook signed on to serve in such an outfit in . Charlie Hart, a survivor of the Confederate prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville, ...
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920
70 Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the People Without History (Berkeley: University of California Press, ), ; Loretta Fowler, Shared Symbols, Contested Meanings: Gros Ventre Culture and History, – (Ithaca: Cornell ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History
For studies on El Niño, see Cesar N. Caviedes, El Niño in History: Storming Through the Ages (Gainesville: ... the global effects and cultural construction of El Niño disasters, see S. George Philander, Our Affair with El Niño: How We ...
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
This study examines the cultural and ecological causes of the near-extinction of the bison.
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The California Gold Rush: A Brief History with Documents
The story of the California Gold Rush is one of unanticipated, rapid, and momentous change.
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Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life
Edwards, “Wild West Remembrances,” Earl Chafin Papers, Southwest Museum/Autry National Center. ... York: Harper and Row, 1988), 134; Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, ...