James E. Sherow

About The Author

James E. Sherow is a professor of history at Kansas State University. A specialist in the environmental history of the American West, he is the author of The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History and Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870–1950. He is also the editor of A Sense of the American West: An Environmental History Anthology (UNM Press).

Books by James E. Sherow

Railroad Empire across the Heartland

Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey

By James E. Sherow
Photographs by John R. Charlton
Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later the Kansas Pacific Railroad), across Kansas beginning in 1867. This book presents recent photographs by John R. Charlton of the scenes Gardner recorde...
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A Sense of the American West

An Environmental History Anthology

By James E. Sherow
An anthology of diverse approaches and issues in the environmental history of the American West.
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