Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
First Impressions | p. 15 |
Progress or Nature: Ebenezer Emmons and the Natural History Survey | p. 27 |
Romantic Travelers and Sportsmen | p. 44 |
The Gilded Age: Murray, Colvin, and the Wilderness Breached | p. 68 |
Wilderness Preserved: The Forest Preserve and the Irony of Forever Wild | p. 92 |
Wilderness and the Conservation Bureaucracy, 1895-1940 | p. 109 |
A Wilderness Aesthetic | p. 136 |
The Institutionalization of a Wilderness Aesthetic | p. 150 |
Notes | p. 167 |
A Note on Sources | p. 197 |
Index | p. 203 |
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