The Settler Sea2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge that poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate? Traci Brynne Voyless history of the Salton Sea examines how settler colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that