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The ranchers who resettled BC's interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range of both. Resettling the Range explores the ecology and history of the grassland and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the claims of "range improvement" and "rational land use," author John Thistle uncovers more complicated stories of marginalization: the destruction of wild horses worked to dispossess aboriginal people, while the campaign to exterminate grasshoppers exposed class conflicts and competing versions of resettlement among immigrant ranchers.This unconventional history examines the lasting effects of range improvement, revealing a fascinating - and troubling - chapter of BC history.

Range ecology --- Grassland ecology --- Wild horses --- Feral horses --- Feral livestock --- Feral mammals --- Horses --- Grasslands --- Ecology --- Rangeland ecology --- Rangelands --- History. --- British Columbia --- British Columbia. --- Environmental conditions. --- BC --- Britaniya Kolumbiyası --- Britanska Kolumbii͡ --- Britanska Kolumbija --- Briti Columbia --- Britisch-Kolumbien --- British Columbia (Colony) --- Britisk Columbia --- Brits-Kolombi --- Britská Kolumbie --- Brytanskai͡a Kalumbii͡ --- C.-B. (Province) --- Colombie-Britannique --- Colony of British Columbia --- Colúmbia Britànica --- Province of British Columbia --- United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia --- Vretanikē Kolomvia --- Brits-Kolombië --- Брытанская Калумбія --- Brytanskai︠a︡ Kalumbii︠a︡ --- Британска Колумбия --- Britanska Kolumbii︠a︡ --- Βρετανικη Κολομβια --- B.C. (British Columbia) --- Vancouver Island (Colony)