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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface: To Love the Land America's Love of the Land: An Introduction Editor's Notes Forerunners: Readings 1770-1880 Introducing the Forerunners "Letter II, On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer" Jean de Crevecoeur "Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX" Thomas Jefferson "How Democratic Institutions and Manners Tend to Raise Rents ..." Alexis de Tocqueville "Nature" Ralph Waldo Emerson "Address Delivered Before the Agricultural Society of Rutland County, 1847" George Perkins Marsh "The Ploughboy" John Muir "Walking" Henry David Thoreau "Birds and the Services They Render" Edmund Morris "Preliminary Report Upon Yosemite and Big Tree Grove" Frederick Law Olmsted "Phases of Farm Life" John Burroughs Part I: The Gilded Age, Readings 1880-1899 Introducing the Gilded Age Farm Pages: The Gilded Age "Footpaths" John Burroughs "Selections from Specimen Days and Notes Left Over" Walt Whitman "Ranching the Badlands" Theodore Roosevelt "The Home Garden" Tuisco Greiner "On Sectionalism: Selections from The Farmers' Alliance History" Leonidas K. Polk and Benjamin Hutchinson Clover "On Roles for Women: Selections from The Farmers' Alliance History" Bettie Gay and Jennie E. Dunning "History of the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union" R. M. Humphrey "Physical Development" Helen Gilbert Ecob "Destruction of the Forest" Edwin J. Houston "The Prevalence of Weeds" Thomas Shaw "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" Frederick Jackson Turner "A Windstorm in the Forest" John Muir "The Advantages of Irrigation" Lucius "Lute" Wilcox "The Fertility of the Land: A Chat with a Young Farmer" Isaac Phillips Roberts "Women as Farmers" Frances Elizabeth Willard "The Agricultural Colleges" Edward Francis Adams Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Martyr and the Pioneer" "Conspicuous Consumption" Thorstein Veblen Part II: The Golden Age, Readings 1900-1920 Introducing the Golden Age Farm Pages: The Golden Age "Renovating the Deserted Homestead" Edward Payson Powell "The Land of Little Rain" Mary Hunter Austin Introducing the Boone and Crockett Club "The Mountain Sheep and Its Range" George Bird Grinnell "Life of the Sequoia and the History of Thought" Henry Fairfield Osborn "Wilderness Reserves" Theodore Roosevelt "Earth and Man" Nathaniel Southgate Shaler "Local Degeneracy" Wilbert Lee Anderson "The Nature Movement" Dallas Lore Sharp "The Garden Yard" Bolton Hall Introducing the Country Life Commission "To the Senate and the House of Representatives" Theodore Roosevelt "Woman's Work on the Farm" Liberty Hyde Bailey et. al "Nature Study and School Grounds" H. W. Foght "The Moral Issue" Gifford Pinchot "The Argument for Cooperation" John Lee Coulter "Birds" Mary Huston Gregory "Protection of Water Supplies as a Conservation of Natural Resources" Ellen H. Richards "Church and Community" Warren H. Wilson "Selections from Farm Boys and Girls" William A. McKeever "Hetch Hetchy Valley" John Muir "The Former Abundance of Wildlife" William Temple Hornaday "It Is Kindly" Liberty Hyde Bailey "The Country Girl, Where Is She?" Martha Foote Crow "The Health of Farm Folk" Henry Wallace "Country Fetes" Charles Josiah Galpin "The Farming That Is Not Farming" Kenyon L. Butterfield "At a World Table" Marion Florence Lansing About the Editor
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Agricultural conservation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Agricultural conservation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.