Sources
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There is a fair amount of work to be done with this!
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A note on sources: I have relied heavily on Wikipedia (to the extent that I sent the Wikipedia foundation a meaningful financial contribution). I have not created a link to every Wikipedia-sourced piece of information, except when I've used meaningful chunks verbatim. In writing about a particular book or author, the book itself often provided important background info - I have generally noted this but not formally cited to it.Otherwise, I've created links to other sources.
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In addition to Wikipedia, this website owes much to two books, Paul Brooks' Speaking for Nature and Thomas J. Lyon's This Incomperable Lande: A Book of American Nature Writing. Both are described in full in the Catalogue: References. For ease throughout I cite each by last name and page number only. More importantly, I highly recommend either or both to the interested reader. [Note my copy of Lyon's book is an uncorrected proof - anything cited herein may have been changed prior to final publication, with pagination the element most likely to be affected.]
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The Library of Congress has a blog post entitled The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920, which is heavily cited (and I heartily recommended it as a high-level overview of a key period). When I refer generically to the Library of Congress, this is what I am citing to: The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 (loc.gov).
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I would add that this blog also served as an inspiration for me to undertake this project.
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Selected other reference books cited - those which are included in the "collectible" reference section marked with asterisks.
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Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. Revised Edition of 1973. Yale University Press. *
Mabey, Richard. Gilbert White: A Biography of The Natural History of Selborne. 1986. University of Virginia Press
Wulf, Andrea. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World. 2015. Alfred A. Knopf
Brown, Janet. Darwin biography. *
Drummond, Alexander. Enos Mills biography. *
Renehan, Edward. John Burroughs: An American Naturalist. 1992. Chelsea Green Publishing Co.
Lowenthal, David. George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. 2000. University of Washington Press
Wooster, Donald. A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir. 2011. Oxford University Press
Krutch, Joseph Wood. Thoreau. (See catalogue, Thoreau and Emerson chapter). *
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Ralph Waldo Emerson biography. (See catalogue, Thoreau and Emerson chapter). *
Brinkley, Douglas. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. 2009. HarperCollins
Huth, Hans. Nature and the American. 1957. Univ of California Press. (New Edition 1990 Univ of Nebraska Press). *
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Before Walden:
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Chesire, James & Uberti, Oliver Atlas of the Invisible (2021). W.W. Norton & Co.
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John James Audubon:
About Audubon and His Octavo Edition Prints (auduboninfo.net)
The Myth of John James Audubon | Audubon
Audubon's Bird of Washington: unravelling the fraud that launched The Birds of America (bioone.org)
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John and William Bartram:
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the ... - Google Books
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George Emerson:
George Barrell Emerson and the Establishment of the Arnold Arboretum (harvard.edu)
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J.T. Headley:
The Adirondack; or Life in the Woods | Old Book Art
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von Humboldt:
Darwin Online: Humboldt's Personal narrative and its influence on Darwin (darwin-online.org.uk)
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John Josselyn:
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Lewis & Clark:
The Illustrations in the Lewis and Clark Journals: One Artist or Two? on JSTOR
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John Ray:
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Gilbert White:
Gilbert White | English naturalist and clergyman | Britannica
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Emerson and Thoreau
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Thoreau:
Henry David Thoreau | Biography, Civil Disobedience, Walden, Books, Beliefs, & Facts | Britannica
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H.G.O. (Harrison Gray Otis) Blake (1816-1898) | The Walden Woods Project
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Krutch, Joseph Wood Thoreau (1948) - See Catalogue for details
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Headley:
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1855-1900
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National Parks (nationalparkstraveler.org)
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Colorado Cultural Resource Survey (nps.gov)
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Wallace:
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Headley:
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Murray:
https://www.nysarchivestrust.org/application/files/4315/3012/8733/TYoung_ArchivesMagazine_Sum18.pdf
Northrup:
Ansel Judd Northrup (1833-1919) - Find A Grave Memorial
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Marsh:
Marsh's "Man and Nature" : Fountainhead of the Conservation Movement : History of Information
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Starr King: Wendt's 1921 bio, now in public domain:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CcoEAAAAYAAJ&q=clipper+syren&pg=PA160#v=onepage&q=clipper%20syren&f=false
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​William Dallam Armes (Muir/Sierra Club):
Twenty Charter Member Questions | Sierra Club
Peaks and Professors (berkeley.edu)
"Letter from Wm. Dallam Armes to John Muir, 1891 May 15." by William Dallam Armes (pacific.edu)
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