among the Indians and Mexicans”John C. Ewers, “Horse Breeding”George Catlin, “Wild Horses at Play”
11 Chapter 3: Colonial Natures: Marketing the CountrysideArticle: William Cronon, “A World of Fields and Fences”DocumentsRobert Cushman, “Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removing out of England into the Parts of America”Lion Gardener, “Livestock and War in Colonial New England”Spanish Priests Joseph Antonio Murguía and Thomaís de la Peña Explain Indian Frustration with Settler Livestock in Colonial California
12 Chapter 4: Slavery and the South Through Environmental HistoryArticle: Mart Stewart, “Towards an Environmental History of the US South”DocumentsNewspaper Advertisements for African Slaves “from ‘The Rice Coast’ of West Africa, with knowledge of rice growing”Wilderness Songs of Enslaved People: William Francis Allen, “Slave Songs of the United States”Testimony from Former SlavesFrederick Law Olmsted, “The Rice District”
13 Chapter 5: Frontier Expansion and WasteArticle: Alan Taylor, “‘Wasty Ways’: Stories of American Settlement”DocumentsJames Fenimore Cooper, “The Wasty Ways of Pioneers”John J. Audubon, “The Wonder of the Passenger Pigeon”Reporting on Passenger PigeonsFrederick J. Haskin, “One Bird Survives Millions”Edwin Bryant, “What I Saw in California”Thomas Cole, “Essay on American Scenery”
14 Chapter 6: Environmental Reform in City and FactoryArticle: Charles E. Rosenberg, “The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866”DocumentsThe Conquest of Pestilence in New York CityUnderground Life – Health Officers Clean Out a Dive San Francisco Fire, 1850sLos Angeles Crowd Welcomes Water Arriving in Aqueduct and Dynamited Portion of LA AqueductAlice Hamilton Explains the Perils of the Industrial Environment
15 Chapter 7: Where the Wild Things Went: Emerging Markets and Vanishing AnimalsArticle: Dan Flores, “Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy Redux: Another Look at the Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850”DocumentsBilly Dixon, “Memories of Buffalo Hunting”Curing Hides and BonesDrake Hotel, Thanksgiving Menu, 1886Plundering the Sea: Baleen and the Destruction of WhalesCharles H. Stevenson, “Whalebone: Its Production and Utilization”Advertisement for Thomson’s Glove-Fitting CorsetDestroying Birds to Make HatsCruelties of Fashion: Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds
16 Chapter 8: The Many Uses of Progressive ConservationArticle: Benjamin Heber Johnson, “Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest”DocumentsGifford Pinchot, “The Meaning of Conservation”Mr. A. A. Anderson, Special Supervisor of the Yellowstone and Teton Timber Reserves, Talks Interestingly of the Summer’s WorkWomen Activists Take on Bird Hat Fashion: Celia Thaxter, “Woman’s Heartlessness”Charles Askins Describes Game and Hunting Conditions in the SouthBen Senowin Testifies about Being Apprehended for Game Law Violations
17 Chapter 9: National Parks and the Trouble with WildernessArticle: William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”DocumentsJohn Muir on Saving Hetch HetchyPeter Oscar Little Chief Requests Permission to Hunt in Glacier ParkThe National Parks Act (1916) and The Wilderness Act (1964)
18 Chapter 10: Conservation and the New Deal: Nature and Nation in CrisisArticle: Neil M. Maher, “A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps”DocumentsAnn Marie Lowe, Farmer’s Daughter, Describes the New DealRussell Moore, “Roosevelt Riddles”Photo Gallery – Arthur Rothstein and Dorothea Lange Capture the Dust BowlEli Gorman and Deneh Bitsilly Remember New Deal Livestock Reduction in Navajo Country
19 Chapter 11: Something in the Wind: Radiation, Pesticides, Air Pollution and PopulationArticle: Robert Gottlieb, “Reconstructing Environmentalism: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots”DocumentsStephen M. Spencer, “Fallout: The Silent Killer”Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring”Monsanto Corporation, “The Desolate Year”Hugh Moore, “The Population Bomb”The Air Pollution Control Act (1955), and the Clean Air Act, with amendments (2001)United Farm Workers, “Pesticides: The Poisons We Eat”
20 Chapter 12: Environmental Protection and the Environmental MovementArticle: J. Brooks Flippen, “Richard Nixon and the Triumph of Environmentalism”DocumentsThe National Environmental Policy Act (1969)The Endangered Species Act (1973)Daniel Yankelovich, “The New Naturalism”Gaylord Nelson, “Earth Day”David Hendin, “Black Environmentalists See Another Side of Pollution”Paul Ehrlich, “The Population Bomb”
21 Chapter 13: Environmental Racism and Environmental JusticeArticle: Eileen Maura McGurty, “From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement”DocumentsLois Gibbs on Toxic Waste and Environmental JusticeUnited Church of Christ, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States”The Letter that Shook a MovementFlint Water Advisory Task Force, “Final Report”
22 Chapter 14: Global Consumers and Global EnvironmentsArticle: Matt Klingle, “Spaces of Consumption in Environmental History”DocumentsPaul C. Standley Reports on Bananas in HondurasImpact of Coffee Farming on Indigenous PeoplesState of Denial – California’s Appetite for World Resources
23 Chapter 15: Backlash Against the Environmental MovementArticle: James Morton Turner, “The Specter of Environmentalism: Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right”DocumentsMap of US Federal LandsTim Peckinpaugh, “Special Report – The Specter of Environmentalism: The Threat of Environmental Groups”Joe Lane (National Cattlemen’s Association) and Larry Echohawk (Shoshone and Bannock Tribes of Idaho) Testify about the Sagebrush RebellionCarl Pope, “The Politics of Plunder”S. Fred Singer, “The Costs of Environmental Overregulation”Mark Douglas Whitaker, “‘Jobs vs. Environment’ Myth”
24 Chapter 16: Shifting Scale: Climate Change and Global PerilArticle: Mike Hulme, “Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism”DocumentsBen J. Wattenberg, “The Population Explosion Is Over”United Nations, “World Population Prospects”Economic Growth and Air Emission TrendsThe Relentless Rise of Carbon DioxideThe Acid Rain Experience: Sulfur Dioxide Air Quality, 1980–2018The Triumph of Diplomacy? Atmospheric CFC ConcentrationsCalifornia Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2000–2017616
25 Index
List of Maps
1 Chapter 1Map 1.1 Selected features of the prehistoric cultural landscape. Some cit…
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Drawn from specimen made by Yellow Hair. Length of specimen, f…Figure 1.2 Drawn from specimen made by Buffalo Bird Woman. Length of wood…Figure 1.3 Method of tilling the ground and sowing seed. The Indians cult…Figure 1.4 The offering of a stag to the sun. Every year, a little before…Figure