What can we learn from a high-country valley tucked into an
isolated corner of Rocky Mountain National Park? In this
pathbreaking book, Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the
environmental and historical pressures that have shaped and
reshaped one small stretch of North America, from the last ice age
to the advent of the Anthropocene and the latest controversies over
climate change. Large-scale historical approaches continue to make
monumental contributions to our understanding of the past, Andrews
writes. But they are incapable of revealing everything we need to
know about the interconnected workings of nature and human history.
Alongside native peoples, miners, homesteaders, tourists, and
conservationists, Andrews considers elk, willows, gold, mountain
pine beetles, and the Colorado River as vital historical subjects.
Integrating evidence from several historical fields with insights
from ecology, archaeology, geology, and wildlife biology, this work
simultaneously invites scientists to take history seriously and
prevails upon historians to give other ways of knowing the past the
attention they deserve. From the emergence and dispossession of the
Nuche-"the People"-who for centuries adapted to a stubborn
environment, to settlers intent on exploiting the land, to
forest-destroying insect invasions and a warming climate that is
pushing entire ecosystems to the brink of extinction, Coyote Valley
underscores the value of deep drilling into local history for core
relationships-to the land, climate, and other species-that
complement broader truths. This book brings to the surface the
critical lessons that only small and seemingly unimportant places
on Earth can teach.
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