04894nam 2200721Ia 450 991082081330332120240515221005.0979-88-908773-7-60-8078-6165-0(CKB)1000000000447681(OCoLC)56356650(CaPaEBR)ebrary10064763(SSID)ssj0000159081(PQKBManifestationID)11161026(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159081(PQKBWorkID)10150205(PQKB)11177499(Au-PeEL)EBL3039451(CaPaEBR)ebr10064763(MiAaPQ)EBC3039451(EXLCZ)99100000000044768120030415d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrom the fallen tree frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 /Thomas Hallock1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20031 online resource (311 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8078-5491-3 0-8078-2820-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-283) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes -- Chronology -- Introduction: Closing the Wilderness, Opening the Frontier -- Meliorem Lapsa Locavit -- Ideas of Nature -- Notes -- Part I. The Western Text -- 1. The Imagined West: Lewis Evans -- A Path Taken Together: Lewis Evans and the Iroquois -- Lewis Evans and the Imagined West -- Thomas Pownall: Revising the Imagined West -- Conclusion: Natives, Nature, and Imperial Geography -- Notes -- 2. The Contested West: John Wilson's Kentucke -- Nature, Nation, and Natural History -- Daniel Boone and the Captive Environment -- Conclusion: ''Avail Yourselves of the Benefits of Nature'' -- Notes -- Part II. Improvement -- 3. Textual Boundaries, Discursive Control: Stories of the Land in the Susquehanna Valley -- ''Mammy Where Are We Going?'': The Limits of Frontier Prose in ''Susquehannah'' -- The ''Wyomen'' of Treaty Literature -- Notes -- 4. Jefferson's Nature and the Trans-Appalachian West: Notes on the State of Virginia -- Ideological Geography and the Disappearing West -- Jefferson, Logan, and the Vanishing Native -- Conclusion: ''Wherefore the Forgery?'' -- Notes -- Part III. Protégés -- 5. Collaboration, Incorporation, and Environmental Discourse: Lewis and Clark, Jane Colden -- Was That a Hoh-host or a Yâck-kâh? -- Fractures in an Imperial Narrative -- Collaboration, Incorporation, Triangulation -- Jane Colden and the Charleston Network -- Alexander Garden's Trip to the Cherokee Mountains -- Notes -- 6. On the Borders of a New World: William Bartram's Travels -- Four Ways of Looking at a Sinkhole: The Construction of a Literary Natural History -- Transformations, Personal and Political -- Four Views of the Alachua Savanna: The Ideological Work of Travels -- Notes -- Part IV. Settlement &amp -- Appropriation -- 7. Reversing the Revolution through Nature: Anne Grant, Timothy Dwight.Anne Grant's Colonial Ecology -- Marking Change, Registering Loss: Timothy Dwight's Travels -- The Roots of a Pastoral -- Notes -- 8. Disappearance and Romance: Cooper's The Pioneers -- Nature, Nostalgia, and Native Americans -- Romancing the Contact Zone -- ''This, Then, Is Thy Indian Blood?'': Becoming Native to Place -- Nostalgia, Guilt, and Nation Building -- Notes -- Coda: Parallel Republics -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-C -- D-F -- G-L -- M-P -- R-Y.Frontier and pioneer lifeUnited StatesHistoriographyFrontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.)HistoriographyEnvironmental policyUnited StatesHistoryEnvironmental policyWest (U.S.)HistoryFrontier and pioneer life in literaturePastoral literature, AmericanHistory and criticismEnvironmental literatureHistory and criticismUnited StatesDescription and travelUnited StatesHistoriographyWest (U.S.)HistoriographyFrontier and pioneer lifeHistoriography.Frontier and pioneer lifeHistoriography.Environmental policyHistory.Environmental policyHistory.Frontier and pioneer life in literature.Pastoral literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Environmental literatureHistory and criticism.973/.07/2Hallock Thomas595206MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820813303321From the fallen tree993054UNINA