New in Paper--Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land thought unusable and unproductive to a wealth-generating industrial agricultural paradise, weighing the consequences of what this progress has wrought.

Foreword: The Wind's Gift of Wheat by William Cronon
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: A Place Called the Palouse
2. The Precontact Palouse
3. From Bunchgrass Backwater to Agricultural Empire
4. The Implications of Prosperity
5. Lessons Learned and Unlearned
6. Better Farming through Chemistry
7. Lessons Neglected and Rejected
8. A Glimmer of Hope?
Eplilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Andrew P. Duffin is assistant professor of history at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.