So Glorious a Landscape Nature and the

So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast and interdisciplinary subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional,

Chris J. Magoc is assistant professor of history at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Preface and Acknowledgments

xiii

Part I Indian Ecology, American Conquest

1

(52)

Acoma Pueblo Creation Myth

20

(3)

Tewa Sky Looms

23

(1)

A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness (1647)

24

(3)

William Bradford

Potential of the New English Canaan (1632)

27

(4)

Thomas Morton

Fate of the Abenaki in the Colonial Ecological Revolution

31

(8)

Carolyn Merchant

The Northwest Ordinance (1787)

39

(4)

The Untransacted Destiny of the American People (1846)

43

(2)

William Gilpin

Americans Spread All Over California (1846)

45

(1)

Monterey Californian

Social and Environmental Degradation in the California Gold Country (1890)

46

(4)

Joaquin Miller

The Soreness of the Land (1925)

50

(3)

Wintu Indian Kate Luckie

Part II Nature's Nation: The American Landscape and the Nature Writing Tradition

53

(50)

Where I Lived and What I Lived for (1854)

74

(6)

Henry David Thoreau

My First Summer in the Sierra (1868)

80

(4)

John Muir

Spring at the Capital (1871)

84

(8)

John Burroughs

The Land of Little Rain (1903)

92

(4)

Mary Austin

The Present at Tinker Creek (1974)

96

(7)

Annie Dillard

Part III Science, Nature, and the Emergence of an Ecological Ethic

103

(48)

The Animal Creation and the Importance of Ephemera (1791)

130

(6)

William Bartram

The Destructiveness of Man (1864)

136

(6)

George Perkins Marsh

Human Ecology and the Habits of Sanitation in the Modern Urban Environment (1907)

142

(3)

Ellen Swallow Richards

Land-Use Ethics and Economic Self-Interest (1949)

145

(6)

Aldo Leopold

Part IV Power and Place: The Meeting of Social and Environmental History

151

(66)

Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades

172

(6)

Robert Gottlieb

Preserving the Hallowed Ground of Dinosaur National Monument (1954)

178

(3)

David R. Brower

The Rape of the Appalachians (1962)

181

(9)

Harry M. Caudill

What Happened at Love Canal (1982)

190

(8)

Lois Gibbs

The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement (1997)

198

(19)

Eileen Maura McGurty

Part V The Environmental Era: Responses to Nature in Distress

217

(74)

Passenger Pigeons (1949)

245

(3)

Robinson Jeffers

The Historic Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis (1967)

248

(8)

Lynn White, Jr.

Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks (1968)

256

(11)

Edward Abbey

The Fate of All Living Things (1977)

267

(4)

Leslie Marmon Silko

The National Environmental Policy Act (1969)

271

(4)

Population and Global Economic Patterns (1990)

275

(4)

Lawrence W. Libby

Rodney L. Clouser

Wise Use: What Do We Believe? (1996)

279

(7)

Ron Arnold

Women and Ecology (1988)

286

(5)

Andree Collard with

Joyce Contrucci

Suggestions for Further Reading

291

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