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PhD History University of Kansas
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According to Wikipedia, James Sherow is an author and emeritus Distinguished Professor of environmental and the American West at Kansas State University and was a regional Democratic politician in Kansas. He is most notable for serving as a city commissioner and mayor of the city of Manhattan, Kansas. He was the Democratic nominee for the First District in the United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, 2014, running against incumbent Tim Huelskamp.

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Jim Sherow's Published Works

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The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s (1992) (89)
Water and Poverty in the Southwest (1989) (77)
Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past (2011) (32)
The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History (2007) (26)
Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950 (1991) (22)
Workings of the Geodialectic: High Plains Indians and Their Horses in the Region of the Arkansas River Valley, 1800–1870 (1992) (19)
Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California (1999) (16)
Astoria and Empire. (1991) (12)
War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861 (1998) (11)
Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West. By Charles F. Wilkinson. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1992. xiii + 376 pp. Maps, notes, index. $25.00 (1993) (4)
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780–1882 by George Colpitts (review) (2015) (3)
The Latent Influence of Equity in Wyoming v. Colorado (1922) (1992) (2)
Utopia, Reality, and Irrigation: The Plight of the Fort Lyon Canal Company in the Arkansas River Valley (1989) (2)
Driving across Kansas: A Guide to 1-70 (2004) (1)
Railroad Empire across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey (2014) (1)
A sense of the American West : an anthology of environmental history (2000) (0)
Langdon, Kansas: the aging of a rural town (1978) (0)
Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West by Sara Dant (review) (2018) (0)
Pushing Buffalo to the Brink (2000) (0)
Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. By John Opie, Char Miller, and Kenna Lang Archer (2019) (0)
Book Review: Summitt, Contested Waters: An Environmental History of the Colorado River; Coates, A Story of Six Rivers: History, Culture and Ecology; and Wohl, Wide Rivers Crossed: The South Platte and Illinois of the American Prarie, by James E. Sherrow (2015) (0)
William Allen White and "What's the Matter with Kansas?" Once More (2006) (0)
Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse. By Andrew P. Duffin . (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2007. xv + 242 pp. $30) (2009) (0)
Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration. By Marcus Hall. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xiv + 310 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $35.00 (2007) (0)
Review of Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians Editedby David J. Wishart (2008) (0)
The Political Economy of North American Indians John H. Moore (1994) (0)
Plains Farmer: The Diary of William G. DeLoach, 1914-1964 Janet M. Neugebauer William G. DeLoach (1993) (0)
Review of Common and Contested Ground: A Human andEnvironmental History of the NorthwesternPlains By Theodore Binnema (2003) (0)
The Contest for the "Nile of America": Kansas V. Colorado (1907) (1990) (0)
Review of Flat Water: A History of Nebraska and Its Water Edited by Robert Kuzelka, Charles Flowerday, Robert Manley, Bradley Rundquist, and Sally Herrin (1995) (0)
Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933-1939 John A. Adams, Jr. (1991) (0)
Review of The Devil Knows How To Ride: The True Storyof William Clarke Quantrill and His ConfederateRaiders By Edward E. Leslie (1998) (0)
The Struggle for Land: Indigenous Insight and Industrial Empire in the Semiarid World. Edited by Paul A. Olson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990). x + 317 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index (1991) (0)
Down to Earth: The Future of the Flint Hills (2016) (0)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Albuquerque District, 1935–1985. By Michael E. Welsh. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987). xii + 262pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $22.50 (1990) (0)
Review of Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land: A Historical Study in the Possibilities for American Sustainable Agriculture By John Opie (1995) (0)
The Last Water Hole in the West: The Colorado-Big Thompson Project and the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. By Daniel Tyler (1993) (0)
Review of Driving Across Kansas: A Guide to I-70 by Ted T. Cable and Wayne A. Maley (2004) (0)
Book Review: Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas (2005) (0)
Fort Riley and American Indians, 1853-1911 (2013) (0)
A Site Survey of the North Side of the 500 Block of Marine Street, Boulder, Colorado. (1983) (0)
The Nation's Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West James R. Skillen (2011) (0)
Review of Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland by Robert Wuthnow (2013) (0)
Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and theWest, 1902–1935. By Donald J. Pisani. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxii, 394 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-520-23030-2.) (2004) (0)
Wyoming Revisited: Rephotographing the Scenes of Joseph E. Stimson. By Michael A. Amundson. (2016) (0)
Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920 Donald J. Pisani (1998) (0)
Dancing on Common Ground: Tribal Cultures and Alliances on the Southern Plains. By Howard Meredith. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. x, 218 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0694-7.) (1996) (0)
The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains Elliott West (1997) (0)

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