{"product_id":"9781941813638","title":"The white river badlands: its history and characters","description":"\"The White River Badlands is a comprehensive history of an area in southwestern South Dakota known worldwide for its unique topography, aridity, and harsh climate. The Lakota were the first people to discover the Badlands, arriving around 1776. They were soon followed by fur traders and then pioneer paleontologists, neither of whom made any demands on the Badlands but accepted the area as it was and for what it had to offer. They were the minority. Most of the subsequent waves of people who came to the Badlands tried and failed to coerce it into doing their bidding. In succession, the Badlands rebuffed trail makers, freighters, homesteaders, cattlemen running thousands of bovine on the open range, and big operators with 100,000-acre leases south of the White River on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian Reservations. Within the last hundred years there have been significant changes in the Badlands: ownership, with the government taking control of thousands of acres of \"submarginal\" land; no letup in the rate of erosion, the arrival of invasive plants, the death of four of the six Badlands towns, an ongoing controversy between the National Park Service and the Oglala Sioux Tribe over control of 113,000 acres of scenic Badlands, and evidence that powerful interests intend to establish a 103,000-acre wilderness area\/buffalo pasture. Author Philip S. Hall examines the unique history of this beautiful, harsh landscape and the colorful people that have called it home\"--","brand":"South Dakota Historical Society Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55437444153687,"sku":"9781941813638","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9946973482879.jpg?v=1792100383","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/9781941813638","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}