Crimes Against Nature

2001 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association. 2001 George Perkins Marsh Prize (co-winner) for the best book in environmental history, American Society for Environmental History. Book jacket.

Karl Jacoby is the Robert J. Carney Assistant Professor of History at Brown University

List of Illustrations

xi

List of Tables

xiii

Preface

xv

Introduction: The Hidden History of American Conservation

1

(10)

PART I. FOREST: THE ADIRONDACKS

The Re-creation of Nature

11

(18)

Public Property and Private Parks

29

(19)

Working-Class Wilderness

48

(33)

PART II. MOUNTAIN: YELLOWSTONE

Nature and Nation

81

(18)

Fort Yellowstone

99

(22)

Modes of Poaching and Production

121

(28)

PART III. DESERT: THE GRAND CANYON

The Havasupai Problem

149

(22)

Farewell Song

171

(22)

Epilogue: Landscapes of Memory and Myth

193

(6)

Chronology of American Conservation

199

(4)

Notes

203

(64)

Bibliography

267

(26)

Index

293

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Crimes Against Nature

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