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From Sea to Shining Sea: Key Resources in U.S. Environmental History (March 2015): Works Cited

by Larry T. Spencer

Works Cited

Ackland, Len. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West. Updated ed. New Mexico, 2002 (1st ed., CH, Mar’00, 37-4062).

Across the Great Divide: Explorations inCollaborative Conservation and the American West, ed. by Philip Brick, Donald Snow, and Sarah Van de Wetering. Island Press, 2001.

American Society for Environmental History.

Bell, Shannon Elizabeth. Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice. Illinois, 2013 (CH, Jul’14, 51-6457).

Black, George. Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone. St. Martins, 2012.

Brady, Lisa M. War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War. Georgia, 2012 (CH, Nov’12, 50-1652).

Brinkley, Douglas. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. HarperCollins, 2009.

Brower, Kenneth. The Wildness Within: Remembering David Brower. Heyday, 2012.

Carr, Ethan. Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma. Massachusetts/Library of American Landscape History, 2007(CH, May’08, 45-4969).

____. Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service. Nebraska, 1998 (CH, Sep’98, 36-0281).

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Cities and Nature in the American West, ed. by Char Miller. Nevada, 2010.

The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot, ed. by Harold K. Steen. Forest History Society, 2001.

Crane, Jeff. Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha. Oregon State, 2011 (CH, Jun’12, 49-5682).

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. 1st rev. ed., 20th anniversary ed. Hill and Wang, 2003.

____. “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” in Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature, ed. by Paul Cronon, 69-90. W. W. Norton, 1995 (CH, Jun’96, 33-5689).

Culliney, John L. Islands in a Far Sea: The Fate of Nature in Hawai’i. Rev. ed. Hawaii, 2006 (CH, Jun’06, 43-5876).

The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest, ed. by Hal K. Rothman. New Mexico, 2003.

Duncan, Dayton. The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Knopf, 2009 (CH, Apr’10, 47-4602).

____. Seed of the Future: Yosemite and the Evolution of the National Park Idea. Yosemite Conservancy, 2013.

Edelson, S. Max. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Harvard, 2006 (CH, Jun’07, 44-5821).

Environmental History. Quarterly. Oxford on behalf of the American Society for Environmental History, 1996-.

Farmer, Jared. Trees in Paradise: A California History. W. W. Norton, 2013.

Fiege, Mark. The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Washington, 2012 (CH, Jan’13, 50-2836).

Flannery, Tim. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples. Atlantic Monthly, 2001 (CH, Nov’02, 39-1545).

Foster, David R. Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Yale, 2004 (CH, Oct’04, 42-0927).

____. Thoreau’s Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape. Harvard, 1999 (CH, Oct’99, 37-0923).

Goetzmann, William H., and William N. Goetzmann. The West of the Imagination. 2nd ed. Oklahoma, 2009 (CH, Aug’09, 46-6608).

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Simon &

Schuster, 2013 (CH, Jun’14, 51-5773). Halfacre, Angela C. A Delicate Balance: Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry. South Carolina, 2012 (CH, Jan’13, 50-2842).

Harding, Walter. The Days of Henry Thoreau: ABiography. 2nd ed. Dover, 1982.

Havlick, David. No Place Distant: Roads and Motorized Recreation on America’s Public Lands. Island Press, 2002 (CH, Nov’02, 40-1504).

Hays, Samuel P. The American People & the National Forests: The First Century of the U.S. Forest Service. Pittsburgh, 2009 (CH, Oct’09, 47-0860).

1100 Choice March 2015 Heacox, Kim. An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks. National Geographic, 2004.

Healey, Judith Koll. Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West. Minnesota Historical Society, 2013 (CH, Nov’13, 51-1673).

Helvarg, David. The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea. Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, 2013.

Hirt, Paul W. The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s-1970s. University Press of Kansas, 2012 (CH, May’13, 50-5020).

A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau, ed. by William E. Cain. Oxford, 2000 (CH, Jun’01, 38-5447).

Humboldt, Alexander von. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, tr. by E. C. Otté. 5v. Harper & Brothers, 1850-59.

Huntley, Jen A. The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America’s Most Popular National Park. University Press of Kansas, 2011 (CH, Jun’12, 49-5876).

Hurt, R. Douglas. The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century. Arizona, 2011 (CH, Apr’12, 49-4657).

Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. Cambridge, 2001.

____. Mining California: An Ecological History. Hill and Wang, 2005 (CH, Jun’06, 43-6099).

Judd, Richard W. Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England. Massachusetts, 2014 (CH, Dec’14, 52-1968).

Keller, Robert, and Michael F. Turek. American Indians and National Parks. Arizona, 1999.

Kilcup, Karen. Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781-1921. Georgia, 2013 (CH, Apr’14, 51-2307).

Krech, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. W. W. Norton, 1999 (CH, Jan’00, 37-2853).

Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good, ed. by William G. Robbins and James C. Foster. Washington, 2000.

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Lannoo, Michael J. Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism. California, 2010 (CH, Oct’10, 48-0841).

Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. H. Holt, 1997.

Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac, Oxford, 1949.

Lewis, Michael. American Wilderness: A New History. Oxford, 2007.

Lorbiecki, Marybeth. Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire. Falcon Press, 1996 (CH, May’97, 34-5053).

Lowry, William R. Repairing Paradise: The Restoration of Nature in America’s National Parks. Brookings, 2009 (CH, Apr’10, 47-4401).

Makley, Michael J. The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West. Nevada, 2006.

____. John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age. Nevada, 2009.

Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus. Knopf, 2005 (CH, Apr’06, 43-4814).

____. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. Knopf, 2011 (CH, Mar’12, 49- 4009).

Martin, Justin. Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Da Capo, 2011 (CH, Oct’11, 49-0849).

McMahon, Eileen M., and Theodore J. Karamanski. North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History. Wisconsin, 2009.

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McPhee, John. Encounters with the Archdruid. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971.

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Meyerson, Harvey. Nature’s Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite. University Press of Kansas, 2001 (CH, May’02, 39-5380).

Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001.

____. Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot. Pittsburgh, 2013 (CH, Aug’14, 51-6738).

Morris, Edmund. Colonel Roosevelt. Random House, 2010 (CH, Jul’11, 48-6493).

____. http://0-www.worldcat.org.novacat.nova.edu/isbn/978-0-698-10783-0The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979 (CH, Sep’79).

____. Theodore Rex. Random House, 2001 (CH,Sep’02, 40-0499).

Muir, Diana. Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England. University Press of New England, 2000 (CH, Nov’01, 39-1684).

Musil, Robert K. Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment. Rutgers, 2014 (CH, Jan’15, 52-2526).

Nabokov, Peter, and Lawrence Loendorf. Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park. Oklahoma, 2004.

Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Wisconsin, 1989 (CH, Jul’89, 26-6275).

____. Wilderness and the American Mind. 5th ed. Yale, 2014 (2nd ed., CH, Jun’68).

Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian, ed. by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis. Nebraska, 2007 (CH, Feb’08, 45-3280).

Newfont, Kathryn. Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina. Georgia, 2012 (CH, Jul’12, 49-6282).

Nicholls, Steve. Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery. Chicago, 2009 (CH, Sep’09, 47-0238).

Pastore, Christopher L. Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England. Harvard, 2014 (CH, Mar’15, 52-3673).

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Punke, Michael. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007 (CH, Apr’08, 45-4583).

Pyne, Stephen J. Fire in America. A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. Princeton, 1982 (CH, Nov’82).

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Robbins, William G., and Katrine Barber. Nature’s Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century. Arizona, 2011 (CH, Jan’12, 49-2888).

Ross-Bryant, Lynn. Pilgrimage to the National Parks: Religion and Nature in the United States. Routledge, 2013.

Rothman, Hal. Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, 2002.

Rowley, William D. U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History. Texas A&M, 1985 (CH, Dec’85).

Runte, Alfred. National Parks: The American Experience. 4th ed. Taylor Trade, 2010.

____. Trains of Discovery: Railroads and the Legacy of Our National Parks. 5th ed. Roberts Rinehart, 2011.

Rupke, Nicolaas A. Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography. P. Lang, 2005 (CH, Oct’06, 44-0902).

Rybczynski, Witold. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century. Scribner, 1999.

Sachs, Aaron. The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. Viking, 2006 (CH, Jun’07, 44-5841).

Sackman, Douglas Cazaux. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. California, 2005.

____. Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America. Oxford, 2010 (CH, Nov’10, 48-1560).

March 2015 Choice 1101 Schullery, Paul, and Lee Whittlesey. Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park. Nebraska, 2011.

Shapiro, Aaron. The Lure of the North Woods: Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest. Minnesota, 2013.

Sims, Michael. The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond.Bloomsbury, 2014 (CH, Oct’14, 52-0710).

Skillen, James R. The Nation’s Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West. University Press of Kansas, 2009 (CH, Jan’10, 47-2868).

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Soll, David. Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply. Cornell, 2013 (CH, Jan’14, 51-2644).

Solnit, Rebecca. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West. Sierra Club Books, 1994.

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Steen, Harold K. The U.S. Forest Service: A History, with a new preface by the author. Centennial edition. Forest History Society in association with University of Washington Press, 2004.

Steinberg, Ted. Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America. 2nd ed. Oxford, 2006.

____. Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History. Oxford, 2002.

Stroud, Ellen. Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast. Washington, 2012 (CH, May’13, 50-4994).

Thorson, Robert M. Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science. Harvard, 2014 (CH, Jul’14, 51-6170).

Turner, James Morton. The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964. Washington, 2012 (CH, Jan’13, 50-29510).

Unger, Nancy C. Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. Oxford, 2012 (CH, Aug’13, 50-6950).

Vowell, Sarah. Unfamiliar Fishes. Riverhead Books, 2011.

Waite, Thornton. Yellowstone by Train: A History of Rail Travel to America’s First National Park. Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 2006.

Walker, J. Samuel. The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States. California, 2009 (CH, Mar’10, 47-4112).

Walls, Laura Dassow. The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America. Chicago, 2009 (CH, Mar’10, 47-3783).

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Williams, Gerald W. The U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest: A History. Oregon State, 2009 (CH, Jun’10, 47-5643).

Willis, Roxanne. Alaska’s Place in the West: From the Last Frontier to the Last Great Wilderness. University Press of Kansas, 2010 (CH, Feb’11, 48-3494).

Winchester, Simon. The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible. Harper, 2013.

Wohl, Ellen. Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West. California, 2009 (CH, Oct’09, 47-0881).

____. Wide Rivers Crossed: The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie. University Press of Colorado, 2013 (CH, Dec’13, 51- 2102).

Wolfe, Linnie Marsh. Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir. Updated pbk. ed. Wisconsin, 2003 (originally published 1945).

Worster, Donald. A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir. Oxford, 2008 (CH, Mar’09, 46-3834).

____. A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. Oxford, 2001 (CH, Nov’01, 39-1534).

Yochim, Michael J. Protecting Yellowstone: Science and the Politics of National Park Management. New Mexico, 2013 (CH, Jan’14, 51-2948).