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anaged Extinction describes the decline of wild salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest over the last 150 years. Many populations are presently on the verge of extinction, particularly in Idaho’s Snake River Basin. Widespread habitat alteration and mainstem dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers contributed to the decline of salmon and steelhead, but continued reliance on hatchery production to rebuild declining salmon runs rather than conservation measures has resulted in management leading to extinction. Restoration of imperiled upper basin salmon and steelhead populations requires removal of the four Lower Snake River dams, restoration of riverine ecological processes, and development of a new salmon management paradigm that focuses on ecological resilience and stewardship.
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Following the horrific massacre of Sand Creek in 1864, the Arapaho and Cheyenne, along with bands of Northern Cheyenne, Sioux and Comanche, fought back. Along the South Platte and Smoky Hill trails, the Indians wreaked havoc from western Kansas to Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. Freight wagons were attacked, wagon trains with westward travels were attacked, homesteads were raided, women and children were kidnapped. In Colorado, from Julesburg to Denver, ranches, farms, and towns were burned. Telegraph lines were cut, railroad ties were torn up, and wagon trains were threatened, for a time, shutting down all travel east and west. It was clear that the Indians were now on the war path. Into this warring faction stepped a young Southern Cheyenne woman, Mo-chi. Mo-chi, twenty years old, seized her dead father’s Hawken rifle, a previous gift from a grateful white man, and pledged revenge. “This day, I vow revenge for the murder of my family and my people. This day, I declare war on veho – white man. This day I become a warrior and a warrior I will be forever.” She would become known by her people as Warrior Woman. With the help of Cheyenne Oral history, as told to John L. Sipes, Jr., her great-great grandson, her full, correct story is finally told.
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2025 THE WANDERER
This is one book running along two themes. It is a conventional straight-line cradle-to-grave biography, supported by a factual basis. It is also a revelatory take-down of the many myths and legends that have clouded and obscured the real life of James Butler Hickok for nearly 150 years. After the myths and legends have been stripped away, the greatest revelation remaining is the fact that the real life of James Butler Hickok is every bit as compelling and fascinating as any myth. James Butler Hickok, as Wild Bill Hickok, was the country’s first real media star; he came of age just when the telegraph and railroad were first spreading across the nation. Suddenly long distance news by wire was instantaneous, and the railroad brought newspapers and magazines just as far by rail in only a few days. Every town along the westward surging railroad had their own newspaper as well. Almost overnight it seemed the nation was connected and coast to coast communication had arrived. media influence of newpapers and magazines increased.
JAMES BUTLER HICKOK & THE AMERICAN WEST Craig Crease
NO ONE WHO MET James Butler Hickok ever forgot him. He was at once unique, and yet also familiar Many who expected to meet a stonecold killer that was crude and coarse, were stunned to find him a charming and cosmopolitan man, mannerly and well educated, who rarely spoke of himself. Truly fearless and with a strong sense of fair play, time and again he walked away from men fired up with whiskey who wanted to test him. But should he see a terrified child or woman or man oppressed by someone formidible he never hesitated to intervene, always to the detriment of the bully. With very few notable exceptions, most of the men who gained fame in the post-civil war American West, once stripped of the fanciful myths and falsehoods that made up their public persona, have little left to justify that fame and regard. James Butler Hickok was one of the notable exceptions. Hickok might be considered in today’s parlance as an overachiever. up to the Civil War, rode in the saddle day and night as a scout and