| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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Book Review

Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri. By Robert Kelley Schneiders. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xviii + 374 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

This is a capacious "bioregional" history of the major riverine system of the northern Great Plains. Throughout, Schneiders ambitiously attempts to interlink Homo sapiens, flora, fauna, climate, and geography into an interconnected ecological and historical matrix, a "tremendous living system" (p. 1). He charts the history of the peoples and animals who have lived along and around the Yellowstone's 680-mile course from its source high in what is now Yellowstone National Park as it winds its way northward and then eastward onto the Montana plains to its confluence with the Upper Missouri near the present-day Montana/North Dakota border. Schneiders suggests, audaciously, that his history can serve as a blueprint for restoring the Upper Missouri's sorely wounded ecological health, a healing that could conceivably lead to new "economic sustainability, and concomitantly the bioregion's economic independence and political autonomy" (p. 2).

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