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Carleton College

Robert Bonner

E-mail:  rbonner@carleton.edu

Articles

"Sarah Trimmer." In: Paul and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.

"Poetry and History." History and Theory, 1975, 14.

"The Dam and the Valley: Land, People, and Environment below Buffalo Bill Dam in the twentieth century," Agricultural History, 2002, 76: 272-288.

"Buffalo Bill Cody and Wyoming Water Politics," Western Historical Quarterly, 2002, 33: 433-452.

"Local Experience and National Policy in Federal Reclamation; the Shoshone Project, 1909-1953," Journal of Policy History, 2003, 15: 301-323.

"Elwood Mead, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Carey Act in Wyoming," Montana, the Magazine of Western History, 2005, 55: 36-51.

Books

Farm Town: Stories of the Early History of Powell. Powell, WY: Powell Tribune, 1999.

Land, Water, and People: The Shoshone Project Story. Shoshone Irrigation District, Powell, WY, 1996.

American Studies at Carleton; The First Half-Century. Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 2003.

William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: the Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.

Reviews

Irrigated Eden; The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West, by Mark Fiege (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Fall 2000.

Drowning the Dream: California's Water Choices at the Millennium, by David Carle (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000), in Western Historical Quarterly, Spring 2001.

Groundwater Management in the West, by Jeffrey S. Ashley and Zachary A. Smith (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), in Western Historical Quarterly, Spring 2001.

Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library, by Andrew Kirk (Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2001), in Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2002.

The American West: The Invention of a Myth, by David H. Murdoch (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2001), in MONTANA; The Magazine of Western History, Summer 2002.

The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall, by Steven Sturgeon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002), in Western Historical Quarterly, Autumn 2003.

Water and American Government; The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 2003.