Frieda Knobloch (University of Wyoming), “Ed Ray and the Desert Day: Wyoming’s Red Desert and the American Decadent Desert” (Yale Agrarian Studies)

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Frieda Knobloch is the author of Agriculture as Colonization in the American West (Univ. of North Carolina Press) and Botanical Companions: A Memoir of Plants and Place (Univ. of Iowa Press), about Wyoming botanists Ruth and Aven Nelson. Currently she is working on a cultural and environmental history of Wyoming’s Red Desert. She also teaches on American cultural diversity and theorizing diversity, and changing ideas about nature and the environment in the U.S.