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There are a few works on Alexander Gardner, but as of yet no one has given him a monographic treatment. Besides John R. Charlton’s publications, some of the best treatments of Gardner’s work besides his Civil War photography and that outside of Kansas include Anne E. Peterson, “Alexander Gardner in Review,” History of Photography 34 (November 2010): 356–67; Raymond J. DeMallie, “Scenes in the Indian Country: A Portfolio of Alexander Gardner’s Stereographic Views of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty Council,” Montana The Magazine of Western History 31 (September 1981): 42–59; and James E. Babbitt, “Surveyors Along the 35th Parallel: Alexander Gardner’s Photographs of Northern Arizona, 1867–1868,” Journal of Arizona History 22 (Fall 1981): 325–48. There is a sizable literature on photography of the American West. A good introduction to it would include Karen and William R. Current, Photography and the Old West (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986); Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989); Martha A. Sandweiss, Print the Legend: Photography and the American West (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002); Mark Klett, Kyle Bajakian, William L. Fox, Michael Marshall, Toshi Ueshina, and Byron G. Wolfe, Third Views, Second Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004); and Rebecca Senf, Stephen Pyne, Mark Klett, and Bryon Wolf, Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012). See also John R. Charlton, “‘Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way’: Alexander Gardner’s 1867 Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division Photographic Series,” Kansas History 20 (Summer 1997): 116–28; and Charlton, “Rephotographing Alexander Gardner’s 1867 Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division,” Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 101 (October 1998): 63–81. Good, general overviews of the grasslands and grassland ecology include Daniel Axelrod, “Rise of the Grassland Biome, Central North America,” in The Botanical Review 51 (April–June 1985): 163–201. Axelrod argues persuasively that the grasslands encountered by the first Europeans to depict them arose as a result of conscious management practices by the people who had occupied the grasslands in the centuries before. Fire was the main tool used by precontact peoples. Geoff Cunifer’s On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment = 203 = SUGGESTED READING SUGGESTED READING = 204 (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2005) blends some of the newest advances in Geological Information Systems technology with agricultural census data and reaches some provocative conclusions. For some time, many scholars have observed and charted many environmental problems associated with Euro-American farming techniques. Cunifer’s data and interpretations suggest that Euro-American Great Plains farmers have “maintained a stable land-use pattern that fits the environment by periodically changing the ways they farmed to fit changed circumstances” (7). O. J. Reichman’s Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987) gives a thorough introduction to the natural history and ecologicalcomplexitiesofthetallgrassprairies.FredB.Samson and Fritz L. Knopf, editors of Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America’s Most Endangered Ecosystem (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996), maintain that the grasslands are one of, if not the most, misunderstood and threatened ecosystems in North America. They emphasize their concern with a collection of essays mainly by biologists and governmental officials who are currently researching grassland ecology and working on providing policies for preserving what is left of the once vast, wild grasslands. My own work, The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, Inc., 2007), provides an overview of the ecological history of the grasslands, which includes the role of human beings. A rich resource for the most current research on the ecology of grasslands is the data research site, “Konza Publications” (Konza Prairie LTER, http://www.Konza.ksu.edu/Knz /pages/education/Education.aspx). An older but still highly useful bibliographic guide to the history of the grasslands is Mohan K. Mali’s edited volume, Prairie: A Multiple View (Grand Forks: University of North Dakota Press, 1975). This limited edition annotated bibliography was the result of the Midwest Prairie Conference at the University of North Dakota in 1974. This volume contains over seven thousand entries relating to the history of, and research on, the grasslands of North America. Of course, much research has been completed since this publication, but it remains one...

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