| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2 | The History Cooperative

*Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness*. By Omer C. Stewart. Edited and with introductions by Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xi + 364 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
Through the use of fire, indigenous peoples made a significant ecological mark on almost every region of North America. In parts of the semiarid West, deliberate fires cleared woody undergrowth, altered forest composition, and opened grasslands. The modern suppression of Indian and natural fires has led to the dangerously high fuel loads that feed catastrophic western wildfires.	1
These are the prescient conclusions of a 1954 manuscript written by a young anthropologist named Omer C. Stewart. Stewart drew on a wealth of historical, ethnographic, and environmental evidence to support his case, but despite the groundbreaking nature of his research, publisher after publisher refused to move on the manuscript and it remained unpublished until now.	. . .

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