Jared Farmer

Jared Farmer (born 1974) is a history professor at Stony Brook University. He specializes in environmental history, landscape studies, and the American West.

Farmer's book On Zion's Mount won the 2009 Francis Parkman Prize. His book Trees in Paradise won the 2015 Ray Allen Billington Prize. In 2014 Farmer received the Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute.

Bibliography

Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1999)

On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians and the American Landscape (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008)

Trees in Paradise: A California History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)

External links

Jared Farmer's website.

Jared Farmer's university website.

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