NOTES
PROLOGUE: ROCKS AND HISTORY
1
Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 (New York,
1986), 305–306.
2
Charles B. Hunt, Natural Regions of the United States and Canada (San Francisco, 1 974), 203.
3
Quoted in Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (New York, 2001), 267.
CHAPTER 1: WILDERNESS UNDER FIRE
1
Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (New York,
1992), 339.
2
Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (New
York, 2001), 176.
3
Ibid., 187; Shepard Krech, III, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (New York, 1999),
3 8–39.
4
Krech, The Ecological Indian, 29–30, 40.
5
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York, 1997), 159,
355; idem, “Why Was Post-Pleistocene Development of Human Societies Slightly More
Rapid in the Old World Than in the New World?” in Americans before Columbus: Ice Age
Origins, comp. and ed. Ronald C. Carlisle (Pittsburgh, PA, 1988), 27.
6
John D. Daniels, “The Indian Population of North America in 1492,” William and Mary
Quarterly, 3d Ser., 49 (April 1992): 298–299, 300, 306, 310–311, 320.
7
Ibid., 314, 315, 317.
8
Krech, The Ecological Indian, 85, 92, 93.
9
William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New
York, 1983), 3 9–40, 53 (quotation).
10
Timothy Silver, A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests,
1500–1800 (New York, 1990), 46–49.
11
Ibid., 43, 45, 51–52.
12
Richard White, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the
Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (Lincoln, NE, 1983), 160, 165, 167, 170, 171.
13
M. Kat Anderson, Michael G. Barbour, and Valerie Whitworth, “A World of Balance
and Plenty: Land, Plants, Animals, and Humans in a Pre-European California,” in Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush, ed. Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi (Berkeley, CA, 1998), 33; Cronon, Changes in the Land, 40–42; William Cronon and Richard
White, “Indians in the Land,” American Heritage 3 7 (August/September 1986): 21.
14
Quoted in Krech, The Ecological Indian, 201.
15
Ibid., 164–165, 170–171, quotation from p. 165.
16
Michael Williams, Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (NewYork, 1989), 41—42
(1st quotation); Krech, The Ecological Indian, 103 (2d quotation).
17
Williams, Americans and Their Forests, 42, 44 (quotation).
18
Krech, The Ecological Indian, 104.
19
Quoted in ibid., 104–105.
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