I seem to recall there being a thread for this book at one point (which must have gotten Dolan'd out of existance).
I bring it up because it is this book's author, William Cronon, whose university email records are now, in a might blow against Big Government (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/have-you-no-sense-of-decency-the-wm-cronon-story/73010/), the subject of an open records request (http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/24/open-records-attack-on-academic-freedom/) made by one of the Governor's staffers (http://www.doa.state.wi.us/staff_detail.asp?staffid=3776&di...vid=155&bureauid=64§ionid179) (and a former deputy campaign manager (http://milwaukee.wispolitics.com/index.iml?mdl=printerfriendly.mdl&article_id=13027&Issue_ID=4293)) on behalf of the Wisconsin GOP.
At any rate, it's supposed to be a great book.
http://www.ruralhistory.net/RHreading/Cronon.html
http://www.urbanoasis.org/node/236