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When she traveled to Kansas from New York in November 1875 to join a husband who had gone west six months earlier, Sarah Anthony faced bitter disappointment. What caused Anthony's discontent, at least in part, was an unfamiliar and alien landscape, as yet untouched by the hand of domesticity. With dedication and fortitude, however, the place could be remade. This article illustrates the impact women settlers had upon the changing environment of the Great Plains.

The Poco Field: An American Story of Place. By Talmage A. Stanley. (Urbana and other cities: University of Illinois Press, c. 2012. Pp. [xxii], 232. Paper, $28.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07839-2; cloth, [...]

The issue of the displacement of dairy farms by housing tracts during the twentieth century and the pollution of a local waterway by chemical production wastes with reference to land use in a Memphis suburb is examined. A further investigation is done on the ways in which race shaped evolving residential patterns, determined exposure to environmental hazards, and influenced the activism that developed in response to these problems.