Contents -- 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? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.