Jon T Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon T Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon T |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lessons from a Garbled Stream
In Colorado, where I grew up, rivers cascaded down the continental divide and pushed across the high plains.Rafters shot rapids while beer drinkers sipped from cans that promised a brew derived from pure Rocky Mountain streams.Rivers were thrilling, marketable, and intoxicating.But it has been a long time since the Kankakee River quickened anyone's pulse.Sandwiched between Indiana and Illinois at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the river looks…
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A dam R. H odge . Ecology and Ethnogenesis
Where do people come from? In Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868, Adam R. Hodge reverse engineers an answer for the Eastern Shoshones, a Native American tribe based on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming since 1868. Hodge traces the group’s origin back thousands of years to the Great Basin, where ancestral Numic-speaking peoples crafted balanced lives from an array of natural resources. Men…
The Shoemaker’s Circus
Grizzly Adams rose to fame in partnership with bears. A wilderness celebrity, he actually grew up in Massachusetts, where he trained as a shoemaker. Shoemaking taught him how to instruct others including wild animals. His management ethos emerged from a nineteenth-century household manufacturing system coming undone by industrial capitalism. This article delves into Adams’s shoemaking background to recover the entwined histories of industrial dis…
The Essential West
One of the joys of trailing Elliot West through this collection of essays comes from watching him follow his druthers. Since the 1970s he has displayed a knack for jumping trends. He has written new social histories of mining camps and frontier childhood, new environmental histories of grasslands and gold rushes, and new western histories of Native Americans and frontier myths. Most recently, he has asked American historians to reconsider Reconst…
Killed Him a Bear
This article targets the political autobiography of David Crockett to uncover the connections between wild animals, African-American slaves, and folksy white power in Jacksonian America. Coleman argues that just as you cannot underestimate the havoc Euro-Americans wreaked on some North American wildlife populations, you cannot oversimplify the causes or the meanings of this violence. Crockett killed bears–lots of bears. But he also created a pers…
Vicious
Vicious
Journal Article Vicious: Wolves and Men in America Get access Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. By Coleman Jon T.. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xv + 270 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, index, $28.00.) Dan Flores Dan Flores University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 2, Summer 2006, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/25443338 Publi…
Two by Two
Virginia Dejohn Anderson. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 322 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $37.50. Mark Derr. A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent. New York: North Point Press, 2004. 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Donna Haraway. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, …
Imagining the Big Open
Journal Article Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West Get access Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West. Edited by Nicholas Liza Bapis Elaine M. Harvey Thomas J.. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $24.95, paper.) Jon T. Coleman Jon T. Coleman Indiana University-Purdue, University at Indianapolis Search for other works by…
The Destruction of the Bison
Book Review| April 01 2002 The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 By Andrew C. Isenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii +206 pp., introduction, maps, index. $24.95 cloth.) Jon T. Coleman Jon T. Coleman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 446–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-2-446 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio …
The Men in McArthur's Bar
“The Men in McArthur's Bar” tells the story of a community of men who resided in Ashcroft, Colorado, a depressed mining town. The article highlights the local sources of a mythic West. In Ashcroft, the imagined West of popular culture merged with a vibrant local storytelling history
The Essential West
One of the joys of trailing Elliot West through this collection of essays comes from watching him follow his druthers. Since the 1970s he has displayed a knack for jumping trends. He has written new social histories of mining camps and frontier childhood, new environmental histories of grasslands and gold rushes, and new western histories of Native Americans and frontier myths. Most recently, he has asked American historians to reconsider Reconst…
The Shoemaker’s Circus
Grizzly Adams rose to fame in partnership with bears. A wilderness celebrity, he actually grew up in Massachusetts, where he trained as a shoemaker. Shoemaking taught him how to instruct others including wild animals. His management ethos emerged from a nineteenth-century household manufacturing system coming undone by industrial capitalism. This article delves into Adams’s shoemaking background to recover the entwined histories of industrial dis…
Killed Him a Bear
This article targets the political autobiography of David Crockett to uncover the connections between wild animals, African-American slaves, and folksy white power in Jacksonian America. Coleman argues that just as you cannot underestimate the havoc Euro-Americans wreaked on some North American wildlife populations, you cannot oversimplify the causes or the meanings of this violence. Crockett killed bears–lots of bears. But he also created a pers…
The Men in McArthur's Bar
“The Men in McArthur's Bar” tells the story of a community of men who resided in Ashcroft, Colorado, a depressed mining town. The article highlights the local sources of a mythic West. In Ashcroft, the imagined West of popular culture merged with a vibrant local storytelling history
The Destruction of the Bison
Book Review| April 01 2002 The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 By Andrew C. Isenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii +206 pp., introduction, maps, index. $24.95 cloth.) Jon T. Coleman Jon T. Coleman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 446–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-2-446 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio …
Imagining the Big Open
Journal Article Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West Get access Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West. Edited by Nicholas Liza Bapis Elaine M. Harvey Thomas J.. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $24.95, paper.) Jon T. Coleman Jon T. Coleman Indiana University-Purdue, University at Indianapolis Search for other works by…
Two by Two
Virginia Dejohn Anderson. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 322 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $37.50. Mark Derr. A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent. New York: North Point Press, 2004. 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Donna Haraway. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, …
Vicious
Journal Article Vicious: Wolves and Men in America Get access Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. By Coleman Jon T.. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xv + 270 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, index, $28.00.) Dan Flores Dan Flores University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 2, Summer 2006, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/25443338 Publi…
Vicious
Killed Him a Bear
This article targets the political autobiography of David Crockett to uncover the connections between wild animals, African-American slaves, and folksy white power in Jacksonian America. Coleman argues that just as you cannot underestimate the havoc Euro-Americans wreaked on some North American wildlife populations, you cannot oversimplify the causes or the meanings of this violence. Crockett killed bears–lots of bears. But he also created a pers…
The Essential West
One of the joys of trailing Elliot West through this collection of essays comes from watching him follow his druthers. Since the 1970s he has displayed a knack for jumping trends. He has written new social histories of mining camps and frontier childhood, new environmental histories of grasslands and gold rushes, and new western histories of Native Americans and frontier myths. Most recently, he has asked American historians to reconsider Reconst…
The Shoemaker’s Circus
Grizzly Adams rose to fame in partnership with bears. A wilderness celebrity, he actually grew up in Massachusetts, where he trained as a shoemaker. Shoemaking taught him how to instruct others including wild animals. His management ethos emerged from a nineteenth-century household manufacturing system coming undone by industrial capitalism. This article delves into Adams’s shoemaking background to recover the entwined histories of industrial dis…
A dam R. H odge . Ecology and Ethnogenesis
Where do people come from? In Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868, Adam R. Hodge reverse engineers an answer for the Eastern Shoshones, a Native American tribe based on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming since 1868. Hodge traces the group’s origin back thousands of years to the Great Basin, where ancestral Numic-speaking peoples crafted balanced lives from an array of natural resources. Men…
Xit
Lessons from a Garbled Stream
In Colorado, where I grew up, rivers cascaded down the continental divide and pushed across the high plains.Rafters shot rapids while beer drinkers sipped from cans that promised a brew derived from pure Rocky Mountain streams.Rivers were thrilling, marketable, and intoxicating.But it has been a long time since the Kankakee River quickened anyone's pulse.Sandwiched between Indiana and Illinois at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the river looks…
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