Land Hunger

Land Hunger narrates a history of frontiers in the Ohio Country, the Great Plains, and the Oregon Country. It examines how Native Americans, African Americans, and Euro Americans interacted on important US frontiers and viewed, used, and adapted to environments new to them, just as present-day Americans are having to adapt to climate change.

Mansel G. Blackford is a professor emeritus of history at the Ohio State University, where he worked in the fields of business history and frontier history for forty years. He is the author or coauthor of a dozen books, several of which deal specifically with Ohio and midwestern history-most recently Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change.