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The Library of Congress had a really good timeline describing publications in its collection which were important in the evolution of the conservation movement from 1850-1920. I relied on this source a fair bit over the years in building my Collection, and I cite to it fairly frequently throughout the website. Unfortunately, in the aftermath of the abortion that is the early days of the second Trump administration, that source is no longer accessible. My original note in this chapter which discusses the source follows:
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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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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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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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