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 TheGrasslandsoftheUnitedStates: AnEnvironmentalHistory and WateringtheValley: DevelopmentalongtheHighPlainsArkansasRiver, 1870-1950. He is also the editor of ASenseoftheAmericanWest: AnEnvironmentalHistoryAnthology (UNM Press).