Jane Brox - Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm

Table of Contents

Five Thousand Days Like This One:
An American Family History

Here and Nowhere Else:
Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family

Throughout Clearing Land I depended for agricultural information on Howard S. Russells A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1982) and his Indian New England Before the Mayflower (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1980) as well as William Cronons Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983) and Natures Metropolis (New York: Norton, 1991). Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2002) by Steven Stoll and New England Forests Through Time: Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000) by David R. Foster and John F. OKeefe were also helpful. Jill Lepores The Name of War: King Philips War and the Origins of American Identity (New York: Vintage, 1999) was essential for my understanding of possession in both the colonial and Algonquin worlds. O. J. Reichmans Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987) and Lauren Browns books, Grasses: An Identification Guide (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979) and Grasslands: The Audubon Society Nature Guides (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), illuminated the prairie and salt marsh habitats. Andro Linklaters Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy (New York: Walker, 2002) helped me to understand the settlement of the prairie. John Foggs Recollections of a Salt Marsh Farmer, edited by Eric Small (Seabrook, N.H.: Historical Society of Seabrook, 1983), made the salt hay harvest come alive.

I am grateful to Nathaniel Philbricks Away Offshore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 16021890 (Nantucket: Mill Hill Press, 1994) and Obed Macys History of Nantucket (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1835) for historical information on Nantucket. Barbara Blau Chamblerlains These Fragile Outposts: A Geological Look at Cape Cod, Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket (Yarmouth Port, Mass.: Parnassus Imprints, 1981) and From Cape Cod to the Bay of Fundy: An Environmental Atlas of the Gulf of Maine (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995), edited by Philip Conkling, were helpful for information on the geology of the island. The web site of the Nantucket Conservation Commission ( www.nantucketconservation.com ) provided me with information on the natural habitat of the Moors, as did The Nature of Massachusetts (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996) by Christopher Leahy, John Hanson Mitchell, and Thomas Conuel. The Nantucket Historical Association was helpful with general research on the island.

Barbara H. Erkkilas Hammers on Stone: A History of Cape Ann Granite (Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1987) helped with my understanding of nineteenth-century quarries. Im also indebted to the Cape Ann Historical Association and the museum at Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Massachusetts.

Wilderness owes much to Into the Mountains by Maggie Stier and Ron McAdow (Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1995), Logging Railroads of the White Mountains by C. Francis Belcher (Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1980), Field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits by Nancy G. Slack and Allison W. Bell (Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1995), and The Appalachian Mountain Club Guide to the White Mountains (Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1992). For the descriptions of the logging camps I relied on A Logging Camp c. 1900 at the web site greatnorthwoods.org .

vii Our signals from the past: George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962), 1718