| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.3

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Book Review

The Future of the Southern Plains. Edited by Sherry L. Smith. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, index. Cloth $29.95.
Scholarly and general audiences alike will be interested in this collection of eight essays on the economic, political, and environmental histories of the Southern Plains—a region the authors center in northwestern Texas, with slices of New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and the Oklahoma panhandle added on. The volume's authors, participants in a 2001 symposium—all also offer possible futures for the region.	1
Like the larger Great Plains region, many counties in the Southern Plains are depopulating, and more than a few have slipped back into Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier" definition of less than six people per square mile. But unlike in the plains country to the north, editor Sherry Smith claims, journalists and others have glossed over the Southern Plains version of shifting demographics and economy. Smith notes that while Frank and Deborah Popper's Buffalo Commons idea is gaining press and some acceptance in the northern plains, Texas and Oklahoma remain largely off the map. The writing in this volume is offered as a partial antidote.	. . .

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