Thomas G. Andrews is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Andrews has both the broad vision and the penetrating focus that
major historians need… Overall a compelling [book].
*Times Literary Supplement*
Andrews’s Coyote Valley is a marvelous example of the intersection
not only of agricultural and environmental history but also of
public and academic history… Andrews also makes a strong case for a
deep-history approach to landscape history.
*Agricultural History*
In this smart and ambitious book, Thomas G. Andrews tries to
reconcile large and small by focusing on the Kawuneeche Valley of
Colorado (Coyote Valley, as translated from Arapaho), a part of
Rocky Mountain National Park… The many successes and occasional
shortcomings of Andrews’s efforts underscore the challenges of
mastering space and scale. More important, this book is a model for
breaking down needless barriers between public history and academic
history.
*Journal of American History*
Andrews covers much ground—eons of time, too—from the prehistoric
era to the present to offer a ‘deep history’ of a small patch of
ground in the Rockies… Those with environmental concerns and others
with interests in Native history will derive much from Andrews’
fine book.
*Choice*
Andrews has followed up his Bancroft Prize–winning Killing for Coal
with an exquisitely wrought portrait of an out-of-the-way place
that must be central to our understanding of the American West’s
past, present, and future: the headwaters of the Colorado River in
what today is Rocky Mountain National Park. Coyote Valley is
brilliant and beautiful, a must-read for anyone interested in the
complex history of the nation’s iconic landscapes.
*Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the
Memory of Sand Creek*
In this gracefully written, insightful, deeply researched history
of an under-studied part of North America, Andrews tells a story of
the fracturing of an environmental order. The chronological scope
and interdisciplinary breadth of the work are impressive. This is
environmental history at its best.
*Andrew Isenberg, author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante
Life*
Those interested to learn how historians now write about the
ever-changing dynamics among people, nature, and culture need look
no further than this book. Coyote Valley defines the cutting edge
of environmental history.
*Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The Comanche Empire*
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