The Last Empty Places (50 page)

55.
the population had suddenly soared in the decades after
A.D
.1050
Stephen Plog,
Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
, p. 93.

56.
the first known white—a prospector named H. B. Ailman
Laurence Parent,
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
, p. 11.

  
1.
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity”
Leopold’s essay “The Land Ethic” in
A Sand County Almanac
, p. 262.

  
2.
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness”
from John Muir’s “Journals,” available online at
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/digital/muirjournals/muirjournals.asp
. Muir’s biographer Linnie Marsh Wolfe also published a collection of these previously unpublished journals under the title
John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
, ed. Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979).

Bevis, Richard.
The Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature
(Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999).

Callicott, J. Baird, and Michael P. Nelson (eds.).
The Great New Wilderness Debate: An Expansive Collection of Writings Defining Wilderness from John Muir to Gary Snyder
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998).

Nash, Roderick Frazier.
Wilderness and the American Mind
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967; 4th ed., 2001).

Newby, Eric.
The World Atlas of Exploration
(New York: Crescent Books, 1985).

Oelschlaeger, Max.
The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991).

Royal Geographical Society.
Oxford Atlas of Exploration
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Stark, William F.
Pine Lake
(Sheboygan, Wis.: Zimmerman Press, 1984).

Stromberg, Roland N.
An Intellectual History of Modern Europe
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975).

Turner, Jack.
The Abstract Wild
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996).

Bible, George P.
An Historical Sketch of the Acadians, Their Deportation and Wanderings Together with a Consideration of the Historical Basis for Longfellow’s Poem Evangeline
(Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 1998; reprinted from an earlier edition).

Denys, Nicolas.
The Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America (Acadia)
, trans. Willam F. Ganong (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1908), pp. 133–36.

Faragher, John Mack.
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion
of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005).

Hamlin, Helen.
Nine Mile Bridge: Three Years in the Maine Woods
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1945; published with additional materials Yarmouth, Me: Islandport Press, 2005).

Harding, Walter.
The Days of Henry Thoreau
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966).

Lescarbot, Marc.
The History of New France
, trans. W. L. Grant, 3 vols. (1609; Toronto: Champlain Society, 1911).

MacDonald, M. A.
Fortune & La Tour : The Civil War in Acadia
(Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2000).

Parkman, Francis.
Pioneers of France in the New World: France and England in North America
(1865; Williamsport, Mass.: Corner House Publishers, 1970).

Sanborn, F. B.
The Life of Henry David Thoreau, Including Many Essays Hitherto Unpublished and Some Account of his Family and Friends
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917).

Thoreau, Henry David. “Ktaadn,” in
The Maine Woods
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1892). (“Ktaadn” was originally published as an essay, “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods,” in
The Union Magazine
, 1848.)

Violette, Lawrence A.
How the Acadians Came to Maine
(Madawaska, Me: Madawaska Historical Society, 1979).

Anderson, Fred.
Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000).

Bartram, William.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country Containing the Chactaws (etc.)
(Philadelphia: James & Johnson, 1791). Available online at
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bartram/bartram.html
.

Borneman, Walter.
The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
(New York: HarperCollins, 2006).

Buck, Solon J., and Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck.
The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1939).

Crevecoeur, Michel-Guillaume Jean de.
Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York
, trans. Percy G. Adams (University of Kentucky Press, 1961).

Earnest, Ernest.
John and William Bartram: Botanists and Explorers, 1699–1777, 1739–1823
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940).

Le Roy, Marie, and Barbara Leininger. “The Narrative of Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger,” in
Papers Relating to the Provincial Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1682–1750, 2nd series, v. 7
(Harrisburg, Penn.: 1891).

Mattern, Kim Adair. “The Leroy Incident, and Observations” (unpublished paper, 2007).

Merrell, James H.
Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
(New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1999).

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
Julie, Or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps
, trans. Philip Steward and Jean Vaché (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1997).

———.
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
, trans. W. Conyngham Mallory (New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1928).

Sargent, Winthrop (ed.).
The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock, Edited from the Original Manuscripts
(Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1855).

Slaughter, Thomas P.
The Natures of John and William Bartram
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).

Wallace, Paul A. W.
Indian Paths of Pennsylvania
(Harrisburg: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2005).

Washington, George.
The Diaries of George Washington
(vol. I), Donald Jackson, ed.; Dorothy Twohig, assoc. ed. The Papers of George Washington. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976).

Bassett, Karen, Jim Renner, and Joyce White (eds.). “Meek Cutoff 1845” (published by Oregon Trails Coordinating Committee). Available online at end-oftheoregontrail.org/oregontrails/meek.html.

Brayman, Pauline, and Vickie Britton (eds.).
A Lively Little History of Harney County: A Centennial Souvenir Album, 1889–1989
(Burns, Ore.: Harney County Centennial Publications Committee, 1989).

Brimlow, George Francis.
Harney County, Oregon, and Its Rangeland
(Burns, Ore.: Harney County Historical Society, 1980).

Brooks, Van Wyck.
The World of Washington Irving
(Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1944).

Burstein, Andrew.
The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving
(New York: Basic Books, 2007).

Davis, Leilani M.
The Shadow of the Steens
(Bend, Ore.: East Steens Mountain Press, 2004).

Fleck, Richard F.
Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians
(Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1985).

Fox, Stephen.
John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement
(Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1981).

Irving, Washington.
Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
(New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861).

——.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (digested from his journal by Washington Irving)
, edited by Edgeley W. Todd (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961).

Larrison, Earl J.
Owyhee: The Life of a Northern Desert
(Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1957).

McNary, Lawrence A. “Route of the Meek Cut-Off,” in
Oregon Historical Quarterly
(vol. XXXV, no. 1, March 1934).

Meek, Stephen Hall.
The Autobiography of a Mountain Man, 1805–1889
, ed. Arthur Woodward (Pasadena, Calif.: Glen Dawson, 1948; originally published 1885 as “A Sketch of the Life of the First Pioneer”).

Menefee, Leah Collins, and Lowell Tiller. “Cutoff Fever” Parts IV–V, in
Oregon Historical Quarterly
(Sept. and Dec. 1977).

Miller, Sally M. (ed.).
John Muir in Historical Perspective
(New York: Peter Lang, 1999).

Muir, John.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913).

Nash, Wallis.
Oregon: There and Back in 1877
(Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1976; originally published 1878).

Olsen, Jack.
Give a Boy a Gun: A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West
(New York: Delacorte, 1985).

Parkman, Francis.
The Oregon Trail
, edited by E. N. Feltskog (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969).

———.
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
(Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House Publishers, 1980, 4th ed.; originally published 1872).

Turner, Frederick.
Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours
(San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985).

Wilkins, Thurman.
John Muir: Apostle of Nature
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).

Williams, Stanley T.
The Life of Washington Irving
(2 vols.) (New York: Oxford University Press, 1935).

Wolfe, Linnie Marsh.
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978; originally published 1945).

Adorno, Rolena, and Patrick Charles Pautz.
Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez
(3 vols.) (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999).

Bandelier, Adolph F.
The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk, Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539
, trans. Madeleine Turrell Rodack (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981).

Beck, Warren A.
New Mexico: A History of Four Centuries
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962).

Cunningham, Bill, and Polly Burke.
Hiking New Mexico’s Aldo Leopold Wilderness
(Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2002).

———.
Hiking New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness
(Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 1999).

Flader, Susan L.
Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974).

Flint, Richard.
No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008).

Flint, Richard, and Shirley Cushing Flint.
The Coronado Expedition, from the Distance of 460 Years
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003).

———.
Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539–1542
(Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005).

Flint, Richard, and Shirley Cushing Flint (eds.).
The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva: The 1540–1542 Route Across the Southwest
(Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1997).

Goodwin, Robert.
Crossing the Continent 1527–1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South
(New York: Harper, 2008).

Hammond, George P.
Coronado’s Seven Cities
(Albuquerque: United States Coronado Exposition Committee, 1940).

Harris, Richard K.
Off the Beaten Path: New Mexico
(Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2005).

Jameson, Franklin (gen. ed.), Frederick W. Hodge and Theodore H. Lewis (eds.).
Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528–1543: The Narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca; The Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando de Soto by the Gentleman of Elvas; The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado, by Pedro de Castañeda
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907).

Kessell, John L.
Kiva, Cross & Crown: The Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540–1840
(Tucson: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1986).

Leopold, Aldo.
A Sand County Almanac, with Essays on Conservation from Round River
(New York: Ballantine, 1970).

Lorbiecki, Marybeth.
Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire
(Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2005; 1996).

Meine, Curt, and Richard L. Knight.
The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and Commentaries
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).

Minge, Ward Allen.
Ácoma: Pueblo in the Sky
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991).