Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History (59 page)

Special thanks to:
Susanne Hunt at Florida’s Historic Preservation/Division of Historical Resources; Bobby Romero, who took me to Mound Key Island on his boat; and Robert Charles Brooks and Michael M. Heare at the Koreshan State Historic Site.
Publications:
Daniel B. Baker, ed.,
Explorers and Discoverers of the World
(Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1993); Marjory Stoneman Douglas with John Rothchild,
Voice of the River: An Autobiography
(Englewood, Fla.: Pineapple Press, 1987); B.F. French (editor),
Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida, 2d ser.: Memoir of Hernando d’Escalante Fontanedo [sic] on the country and ancient Indian tribes of Florida. Translated from Ternaux Compan’s French translation from the original memoir in Spanish
(New York: A. Mason, 1875); Robin Hanbury-Tenison, ed.,
The Seventy Great Journeys in History
(New York: Thames & Hudson, 2006); Tony Horwitz, “The Real First Pilgrims,”
American History
(August 2008); Shelley Sperry, “A World Transformed,” map supplement to
National Geographic
(May 2007); and David O. True (editor),
Memoir of Do. D’Escalante Fontaneda Respecting Florida, Written in Spain, about the year 1575, Translated from the Spanish with Notes by Buckingham Smith: 1854
(Coral Gables, Florida: Glade House, 1945).

Special thanks to:
Peggy Ford at the Greeley History Museum; Kay E. Lowell at the University of Colorado’s James A. Michener Library; and Terri Wargo (the library director at the West Lebanon–Pike Township Public Library, as well as the president of the Warren County Historical Society), who did an enormous amount of research on Grand Prairie for me and guided me to its former site.
Publications:
Kamal Abdel-Malek,
America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000); Daniel Brogan, “Al Qaeda’s Greeley Roots,”
5280 Magazine
(June/July 2003); Thomas A. Clifton,
Past and Present of Fountain and Warren Counties Indiana
(Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1913); Coy F. Cross II,
Go West Young Man!: Horace Greeley’s Vision for America
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995); Harry Evans, “Grand Prairie Harmonical Institute [
sic
],”
Indiana Magazine of History
(vol. XII, March 1916); Gerald and Patricia Gutek,
Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998); Mark Holloway,
Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America
, 2nd ed. (New York: Dover Publications, 1966); Edward R. Horgan,
The Shaker Holy Land: A Community Portrait
(Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1987); Arthur Melville Pearson, “Utopia Derailed: How the 1894 Pullman Strike Ended One Magnate’s Vision of a Working-Class Paradise,”
Archaeology
(January/February 2009); Mike Peters, “Roots of Terrorism,”
Greeley Tribune
(February 24, 2002); Martha Smallwood, “Warren County’s Socialist Experiment on Prairie Township Farm,”
Williamsport Pioneer
(March 9, 1950); Jyotsna Sreenivasan,
Utopias in American History
(Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008); David Von Drehle, “A Lesson in Hate,”
Smithsonian
(February 2006); Richard Frothingham,
Life and Times of Joseph Warren
(Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1865); and Lawrence Wright,
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
(New York: Knopf, 2006).

Special thanks to:
Leah Witherow at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum.
Publications:
Richard E. Bohlander, ed.,
World Explorers and Discovers
(New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992); Eugene W. Hollon,
The Lost Pathfinder: Zebulon Montgomery Pike
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949); Milbry Polk and Mary Tiegreen,
Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World
(New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2001); Frances Rooney,
Extraordinary Women Explorers
(Toronto: Second Story Press, 2005); Lynn Sherr,
America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation’s Favorite Song
(New York: Public Affairs, 2001); Gayle C. Shirley,
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women
(Guildford, Conn., and Helena, Mont.: Globe Pequot Press, 2002); Agnes Wright Spring, ed.,
A Bloomer Girl on Pike’s Peak—1858, Julia Archibald Holmes: First White Woman to Climb Pike’s Peak
(Denver: Denver Public Library, 1949); Rebecca Stefoff,
Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992); and Claude Wiatrowski,
All Aboard for America’s Mountain: The Manitou and Pike’s Peak Railway
(Manitou Springs, Colo.: Manitou and Pike’s Peak Railway Company, 2007).

Special thanks to:
Eric Robinson at the New-York Historical Society for finding the
New York Times
obituary about Madison Grant.
Publications:
Joel K. Bourne Jr., “Redwoods: The Super Trees,”
National Geographic
(October 2009); Frederick Russell Burnham tribute from the Library of Congress, Kermit Roosevelt papers, “Boone & Crocket Club 35-38” folder, container 106; Wayne Gard,
The Great Buffalo Hunt
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1959); Martin S. Garretson,
The American Bison: The Story of Its Extermination as a Wild Species and Its Restoration Under Federal Protection
(New York: New York Zoological Society, 1938); Andrew C. Isenberg,
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000); Michael Punke,
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2007); and Philip Shabecoff,
A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement
(Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003).

Special thanks to:
Karen Litzenberg at the Sonoma Developmental Center, who couldn’t have been more helpful, especially in light of the sensitive nature of this topic.
Publications:
Edwin Black,
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race
(New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003); Harry Bruinius,
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity
(New York: Knopf, 2006); Peter Irons, “Forced Sterilization: A Stain on California,”
Los Angeles Times
(February 16, 2003); Wendy Kline,
Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Stefan Kuhl,
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Mark A. Largent,
Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University
Press, 2008); Paul A. Lombardo,
Three Generations, No Imbeciles
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); Nuremberg-related documents are from the Harvard Law School Library’s “Nuremberg Trials Project—A Digital Document Collection,”
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
; Andrea Pitzer, “Terrible Legacy of U.S. Eugenics,”
USA Today
(June 24, 2009); Peter Quinn, “Race Cleansing in America,”
American Heritage
(February/March 2003); Jonathan Peter Spiro,
Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant
(Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2009); Alexandra Minna Stern,
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); Aaron Zitner, “Sterilization in California,”
Los Angeles Times
(March 16, 2003); and
https://supreme.justia.com
, for a full transcript of all the Justices’ opinions in
Buck v. Bell
.

Special thanks to:
Karen Sadler and Benjamin Pykles at the Church of Latter-day Saints.
Publications:
A copy of Governor Christopher “Kit” Bond’s statement on June 25, 1976, rescinding Governor Lilburn Boggs’s October 1838 Executive Order #44, can be accessed online from the Missouri State Archives (Missouri Mormon War collection) at
http://www.sos.mo.gov
; Juanita Brooks,
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
(Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 1962); Paul Hodson,
Never Forsake: The Story of Amanda Barnes Smith—Legacy of the Haun’s Mill Massacre
(Salt Lake City: Keeban Productions, 1996); Jon Krakauer,
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
(New York: Doubleday, 2003); Stephen C. LeSeuer,
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990); and Beth Shumway Moore,
Bones in the Well: The Haun’s Mill Massacre, 1838
(Norman, Okla.: Arthur Clark Company, 2006); and Joseph Smith III and Heman C. Smith,
The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1836–1844, Volume 2
(Independence, Missouri: Herald House, 1897).

Special thanks to:
Bob Nelson, my trusty guide in Rock Springs.
Publications:
Henry Chadey,
The Chinese Story and Rock Springs, Wyoming
(Green River, Wyo.: Sweetwater County Museum, 1984); Cathy Newman, “Together Forever: Chang and Eng Gave the World ‘Siamese Twins’—and Brought a Small Town an Enduring Legacy,”
National Geographic
(June 2006); Jean Pfaelzer,
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
(New York: Random House, 2007); Craig Storti,
Incident at Bitter Creek: The Story of the Rock Springs Massacre
(Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991); Russel L. Tanner and Margie Fletcher Shanks,
Images of America: Rock Springs
(Mount Pleasant, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2008); Amy and Irving Wallace,
The Two: The Story of the Original Siamese Twins
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978); and Ralph Zwicky testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, report no. 2044, “Providing Indemnity to Certain Chinese Subjects” (May 1, 1886).

Special thanks to:
Kay Gray and Mike Shamalla at the Dowagiac District Library; Muriel Anderson and Amanda Wahlmeier at the National Orphan Train Complex; and Vickie Phillipson, who works for the Greater Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce.
Publications:
Mary Bigger, “Alice Bullis Ayler Story,”
http://www.orphantraindepot.org/AliceAylerStory.html
; John Eby, “Orphan Train Mystery Solved?,”
Dowagiac Daily News
(March 9, 2007); Marilyn Irvin Holt,
The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992);
and Stephen O’Connor,
Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).

Special thanks to:
Tom Eberle, deputy clerk at the Oklahoma Supreme Court; Andy Hollinger and Geoff Megargee at the United States Holocaust Memorial; Debra Spindle at the Oklahoma Historical Society; Patricia Presley and Kathy Stanley at the Oklahoma County Court; and Janice Thompson at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
Publications:
Gary Hartman, Roy M. Mersky, and Cindy L. Tate,
Landmark Supreme Court Cases: The Most Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
(New York: Checkmark Books, 2007); David Cay Johnston, “William Pierce, 69, Neo-Nazi Leader, Dies,”
New York Times
(July 24, 2002); Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck,
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Tragedy at Oklahoma City
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001); Victoria F. Nourse,
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2008); and
https://supreme.justia.com
, for a full transcript of all the Justices’ opinions in
Skinner v. Oklahoma
.

All of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions cited in the following chapters can also be found at:
https://supreme.justia.com
. Special thanks to:
Marie Barnett for sharing her story with me; Debra Basham at the West Virginia State Archive; and Midge Justice at the Kanawha County Records Office in West Virginia.
Publications:
American Civil Liberties Union,
The Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses
(New York, 1941); Richard J. Ellis,
To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005); Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick,
The Pursuit of Justice: Supreme Court Decisions That Shaped America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); Peter Irons,
A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
(New York: Viking Penguin, 1999); Shawn Francis Peters,
Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000); and Robert H. Jackson Center and the Supreme Court Historical Society, “Recollections of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette,”
St. John’s Law Review
(September 24, 2007).