My past work has focused on the social and environmental history of the Rocky Mountain West. My current work focuses on human interactions with non-human animals across a broad sweep of US history. In particular, I am completing a book on the Great Horse Flu, an outbreak caused by a novel equine influenza virus that began outside of Toronto and spread throughout the northern Americas in 1872-1873.
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environmental history, history of the U.S. West, Native American history, history of human-animal interactions, labor history, history education, US social history in 19th and 20th century, history of the U.S. national parks
