Storming the Gates of Paradise (57 page)

“The Red Lands,” “California Comedy, or Surfing with Dante,” and “A Murder of Ravens: On Globalized Species” originally appeared in the
London Review of Books
in 2003, 2004, and 2006, respectively.

“The Postmodern Old West, or the Precession of Cowboys and Indians” was originally published in the September and December 1996 issues of
Art issues
.

“The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence: Creating, Revising, and Recognizing Native American Monuments” is included here courtesy of
Harvard Design Magazine
, where it first appeared in the fall 1999 issue.

“The Garden of Merging Paths” first appeared in
Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information
, edited by James Brook and Iain A. Boal and published by City Lights Books in 1995.

“A Route in the Shape of a Question” was published in a truncated version in the
Los Angeles Times
in 2004.

“Thirty-Nine Steps Across the Border and Back” appeared in
Against the Wall
, edited by Michael Sorkin and published by the New Press in 2005.

“Nonconforming Uses: Teddy Cruz on Both Sides of the Border” was originally published as part of
Democratic Vistas Profiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy
(
http://artspolicy.colum.edu/DVProfiles.html
),
Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College, Chicago, in 2006.

“The Price of Gold, the Value of Water” appeared in
Sierra
magazine in 2000.

“Meanwhile Back at the Ranch,” “Jailbirds I Have Loved,” “Fragments of the Future: The FTAA in Miami,” “Liberation Conspiracies,” “Sontag and Tsunami,” and “The Wal-Mart Biennale” all originally appeared at Tomdispatch.com.

“Poison Pictures” and “Other Daughters, Other American Revolutions” were published in
The Nation
in 2003 and 2006, respectively.

“Excavating the Sky” was the essay included in Richard Misrach’s
The Sky Book
, published by Arena Editions in 2000.

“Drawing the Constellations” accompanied the photograph “Home” in Meridel Rubenstein’s retrospective volume
Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam
, published by St. Anne’s Press in 2004.

“Hugging the Shadows,” “Justice by Moonlight,” “Mirror in the Street,” “The Silence of the Lambswool Cardigans,” “Locked Horns,” and “The Orbits of Earthly Bodies” all appeared in
Orion
magazine from 2003 through 2005.

“Making It Home: Travels outside the Fear Economy” was part of the text of a talk delivered by the author at the 2005 Chicago Humanities Festival.

A slightly longer version of “Every Corner Is Alive: Eliot Porter as an Environmentalist and an Artist” appeared in
Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness
, a book edited by John Rohrbach to accompany an Eliot Porter retrospective, copublished in 2001 by the Amon Carter Museum and the Aperture Foundation; it is included here courtesy of the Museum.

“The Botanical Circus, or Adventures in American Gardening” was the introduction to John Pfahl’s
Extreme Horticulture
, published by Francis Lincoln Books in 2003, and appears here by permission of the press.

“Seven Stepping Stones down the Primrose Path past Gender” was the keynote address delivered by the author at a 2002 conference on landscape and gender, sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley.

“San Francisco: The Metamorphosis” was included in
These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union
, edited by John Leonard and published by Nation Books in 2003.

“The Heart of the City” and “Gaping Questions” were published in the
San Francisco Chronicle
in 2004 and 2002, respectively, though the latter was written in October of 2001.

A longer version of “The Ruins of Memory” was included in Mark Klett’s book with Michael Lundgren, with essays by Philip Fradkin and Rebecca Solnit,
After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
, published by the University of California Press in 2006.

“Seashell to Ear” was the text for Helen Douglas’s photographic book
Unravelling the Ripple
, published by Pocketbooks in Edinburgh in 2001.

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

Adams, Ansel

Adams, Robert

Alighieri, Dante

American Civil Liberties Union

Anthony, Carl

Apple Computer

Arcadia

Arendt, Hannah

Aristotle

Balboa Park

Baldwin, James

Bangladesh

Barnum, P. T.

Barry Goldwater Bombing Range

Basso, Keith

Baudrillard, Jean

Beard, Peter

Becoming Citizens: Family Life and the Politics of Disability
(Schwartzenberg)

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Benjamin, Walter

Benton, Thomas Hart

Berlin Wall

Berman, Marshall

Birds, bird migration

Birk, Sandow

Black, Michael

Black Elk, Charlotte

Black Rock Desert

Bonneville Salt Flats

Borders

Borges, Jorge Luis

Brashares, June

Brechin, Gray

Brooks, Drex

Brower, David

Brown, Dee

Bryant, William Cullen

Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
See
Cody, William F.

Burnett, Governor Peter

Burtynsky, Edward

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
(Brown)

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
(Hochschild)

Bush, George

California

Canada

Capital
(Marx)

Caponigro, Eleanor

Carson, Kit

Carson, Rachel

Casa Familiar, San Ysidro

Central Park

Cerberes, France

ChevronTexaco

Churchill, Ward

Cities: and countryside

Civil disobedience

“Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau)

Cixous, Hélène

Clarkson, Thomas

Cleland, John

Clinton, Bill

Clouds

Cody, William F. (“Buffalo Bill”)

Cohen, Michael

Cole, Thomas

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Concord, Massachusetts

Conrad, Joseph

Cowboys

Crazy Horse

Cruz, Teddy

Cyanide

Dalton Gang

Dann, Carrie and Mary

Dante’s Inferno
(book)

Davis, Mike

Day After Tomorrow, The
(film)

Dead Man
(film)

Death and Life of Great American Cities The
(Jacobs)

Demonstrations.
See
Protests; Civil disobedience

Desert.
See also
Great Basin; Nevada; New Mexico

Devil’s Tower National Monument

Divine Comedy

Durand, Asher B.

Durham, Jimmie

Earp, Wyatt

Earp, Allie

Eastwood, Clint

Eden, see also Paradise

El Dorado County

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

End of the Trail, The
(sculpture)

Engels, Friedrich

Environmentalism, environmental movement.
See also
Carson, Rachel; Porter, Eliot; Sierra Club

Equiano, Olaudah

Fallon Naval Air Station, NV

Fanny Hill
(Cleland)

Fast Runner, The (Atanarjuat)
(film)

Feminism

Fences.
See also
Borders

Finn, Huckleberry

First Amendment

Fittko, Lisa

Franco, Francisco

Fraser, James Earl

Frayling, Christopher

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

Fremont, Jessie Benton

Fremont, John

Friedan, Betty

Frischman, Steve (Nevada Nuclear Projects Office)

Galilei, Galileo

Gardens

Garvey, Sean

Gender

Getty Museum, J. Paul

Gilbert, Jan

Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam

Globalization.
See also
World Trade Organization (WTO); North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

Gold

Gold Rush

Gomez-Pena, Guillermo

Great Basin

Great Basin Mine Watch

Guatemala City

Hamilton, Ann

Harney, Corbin

Heap of Birds, Edgar Hachivi

Heart of Darkness
(Conrad)

Hernandez, Ezekiel

Hesiod

Hickok, Wild Bill

High Country News

Highway 50, “the Loneliest Highway in America”

Hochschild, Adam

Homelessness

Hugo, Victor

Immigrants.
See
Borders

In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World
(Porter)

Indians.
See
Native Americans

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Iraq, U.S. war in

Irwin, Robert

Ishi, “the last Yahi”

Jackson, J. B.

Jacobs, Jane

Jarmusch, Jim

Jefferson, Thomas

Jesus

Johnson, Jay

Jupiter, moons of

Kerouac, Jack

King, Jr., Martin Luther

Klein, Norman

Kodak factory

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Labyrinths

Landscape.
See also individual artists

Lang, Julian

Latin America

Lee Vining (town)

LeGuin, Ursula K.

Levada, Archbishop William J.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

Limerick, Patricia Nelson

Lippard, Lucy

Little Bighorn, battlefield

Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation

Lombardi, Mark

Long, Richard

Los Angeles

Mander, Jerry

Maps

Marshall, George

Marston, Ed

Marx, Karl

Mazes.
See also
Labyrinths

McCannell, Dean

McPhee, John

Melville, Herman

Memory

Merchant, Carolyn

Mercury

Metaphor

Mexico

Cancun, WTO meeting in

war on.
See also
Borders; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Mik, Aernout (artist)

Miller, Jeffrey

Mining

Misrach, Richard

Montana

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres de la Plaza de Mayo)

Mountain lions

Muir, John

Mulroy, Pat

Monument Valley (Tse Bii’Nidzinsigai)

Monuments.
See
Public art

Myers, Tom (Great Basin Mine Watch)

Names, naming

National Lawyers Guild

Native Americans

Inuit

Kiowa

Lakota

Mattole

Miwok (Coast)

Nisenan

Ohlone

Pequots

Pueblo

Southern Sierra Miwok

Western Apache

Western Shoshone

White Clay Assinboine

Nelson, Richard K.

Nevada

Nevada Test Site

New Age movements

Newhall, Beaumont

New Mexico

New Urbanism

New York City

New York Times

North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Nuclear weapons, nuclear war

Nuclear waste

Depleted uranium

O’Dea, Martina

O.K. Corral

Oklahoma

On Photography. See
Sontag, Susan

Ono, Yoko

Ouverture, Toussaint L’

Ovid

Paradise

Pauli, Lori

Pedestrians, pedestrianism

Pena, Veronica de la

Perenyi, Eleanor

Pesticides.
See also
Carson Rachel

Petefish, Andy

Photography.
See also
Misrach, Richard; Porter, Eliot; Rubenstein, Meridel; Sontag, Susan

Pioneer Monument, San Francisco

Place, idea of

Sacred sites

Place No One Knew, The
(Porter)

Playboy channel and magazine

Plazas

Pope, Alexander

Port Bou, Spain

Porter, Eliot

Porter, Fairfield

Postmodernism, postmodernists

Powell, John Wesley

Prest, John

Price, Jenny

Project Underground

Protests.
See also
Civil disobedience

Public art

Racism.
See also
Borders; Native Americans; Slavery, slaves

Reagan, Ronald

Reclaim the Streets

Reisner, Mark

Report on an Expedition of the Country Lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains
(Fremont)

Repo Man
(film)

Republican Party

Republican National Convention of 2004

Rexroth, Kenneth

Richard, Frances

Rigo 23 (artist)

Rio Grande (river)

Road Runner
(cartoon series)

Rohrbach, John

Rosenblum, Robert

Rosenzweig, Ray

Rothko, Mark

Rubenstein, Meridel

Ruskin, John

Sacramento River

Sacred sites

Safde, Moishe

Salmon

San Diego

San Francisco

San Jose

Sanders, Marcus

Santa Clara County

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Sante, Luc

Sawyer, Alonzo, Judge

Schwartzenberg, Susan

Seattle.
See also
World Trade Organization (WTO)

Sebald, W. G.

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
See
World Trade Center

Sequioa National Forest

Sewell, Chris

Sharp, Granville

Shepard, Paul

Sierra Club

Sierra Nevada

Silent Spring
(Carson)

Silicon Valley

Silko, Leslie Marmon

Sitting Bull

Sky

Slavery, slaves