Articles

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The Efficiency of Voluntary Incentive Policies for Preventing Biodiversity Loss (with A. Plantinga, E. Nelson, and S. Polasky), Resource and Energy Economics (2011)
 

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Lakeshore Zoning has Heterogeneous Ecological Effects: An Application of a Coupled Economic-Ecological Model (with Van Butsic and Volker C. Radeloff), Ecological Applications (2010)
 

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Forty Years of the Western Historical Quarterly, Western History Association Newsletter (2009)

The first issue of the Western Historical Quarterly appeared in mailboxes in March 1970, but...

 

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Targeting Incentives to Reduce Habitat Fragmentation (with Andrew Plantinga and Junjie Wu), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2009)
 

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Surveying the Western History Association (with Michael Lansing), Western Historical Quarterly (2007)

In 2005 the WHA Membership Committee conducted a survey of its members. The following essays...

 

Bernard DeVoto's ‘Utah’, Salt Lake, Magazine of the Mountainwest (2000)
 

Saints and Sinners: Utah's Past and Present, Salt Lake, Magazine of the Mountainwest (1999)
 

Laugh and History Laughs with You, Salt Lake, Magazine of the Mountainwest (1998)
 

That Lengthening Shadow, Salt Lake, Magazine of the Mountainwest (1997)
 

The Rest is History, Salt Lake, Magazine of the Mountainwest (1996)
 

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Native Americans and the Environment: A Survey of Twentieth-Century Issues, American Indian Quarterly (1995)

Native Americans have long had an immediate relationship with their physical environments. At contact most...

 

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Still Native: The Significance of Native Americans in the History of the Twentieth-Century American West, Western Historical Quarterly (1993)

When Frederick Jackson Turner looked at American history in 1893 he considered Native Americans to...

 

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Changing Subsistence, Changing Reservation Environments: The Hupa, 1850-1980s, Agricultural History (1992)

In January of 1987 we sat around the table of George Byron Nelson, Sr., a...

 

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Reservation Leadership and the Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy: William Wash and the Northern Utes, 1865-1928, Ethnohistory (1991)

In the early twentieth century, Indian Bureau officials noted an increasing incidence of tribal factionalism...

 

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Argonauts and the Overland Trail Experience: Method and Theory, Western Historical Quarterly (1985)

In the spring of 1849 John Evans Brown and his young companions from North Carolina...

 

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"For Life, the Resurrection, and the Life Ever-Lasting": James J. Strang and Strangite Mormon Polygamy, 1849-1856, Wisconsin Magazine of History (1983)

In the early 1860's, a young man arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, eager,...

 

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La Plata, 1890-1893: Boom, Bust and Controversy, Utah Historical Quarterly (1982)

La Plata was a small mining town nested in the south end of Cache County...

 

Books

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Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (with Michael E. Harkin), Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (2007)

Native Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works...

 

Major Problems in the History of the American West (with Clyde A. Milner, II and Anne M. Butler), Major Problems in the History of the American West (1997)
 

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Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change, Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change (1997)

During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans...

 

Contributions to Books

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American Indian Environmental Relations, A Companion to American Environmental History (2010)

It's an iconic image. A lone Indian paddles a birch bark canoe downstream. The churning...

 

Bernard DeVoto’s Utah, Utah in the Twentieth Century (2009)
 

Introduction (with Michael E. Harkin), Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (2007)
 

Skull Valley Goshutes and the Politics of Nuclear Waste: Environment, Economic Development, and Tribal Sovereignty, Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (2007)
 

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Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West, A Companion to the American West (2004)

A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of...

 

A Utahn and Historian Considers Public Lands, Land That We Love: Americans Talk About America’s Public Lands (2002)
 

Native Americans: The Original Westerners, The Rural West Since World War II (1998)
 

Farming and the Northern Ute Experience, Major Problems in the History of the American West (1997)
 

Utah Centennial Statement, Faces of Utah: A Portrait (1996)
 

Farming and the Northern Ute Experience, 1850-1940, Overcoming Economic Dependency (1988)