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BL
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991966
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b746336
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| Main Entry
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Hallock, Thomas.
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| Title & Author
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From the fallen tree : : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 /\ Thomas Hallock.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (xix, 289 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0807828203
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: 0807854913
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: 0807861650
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: 9780807828205
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: 9780807854914
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: 9780807861653
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index.
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| Contents
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Closing the wilderness, opening the frontier -- I: The western text -- 1. The imagined west: Lewis Evans -- 2. The contested west: John Filson's Kentucke -- II: Improvement -- 3. Textual boundaries, discursive control: stories of the land in the Susquehanna Valley -- 4. Jefferson's nature and the Trans-Appalachian west: notes on the state of Virginia -- III: Protégés -- 5. Collaboration, incorporation, and environmental discourse: Lewis and Clark, Jane Colden -- 6. On the borders of a new world: William Bartram's Travels -- IV: Settlement and appropriation -- 7. Reversing the revolution through nature: Anne Grant, Timothy Dwight -- 8. Disappearance and romance: Cooper's The Pioneers.
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Environmental literature-- History and criticism.
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Environmental policy-- United States-- History.
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Environmental policy-- West (U.S.)-- History.
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Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
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Frontier and pioneer life-- United States-- Historiography.
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Frontier and pioneer life-- West (U.S.)-- Historiography.
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Pastoral literature, American-- History and criticism.
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Environmental literature.
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Environmental policy.
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Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
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Frontier and pioneer life-- Historiography.
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Historiography.
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HISTORY-- State Local-- General.
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Pastoral literature, American.
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Travel.
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Amerikaans.
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Letterkunde.
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United States, Description and travel.
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United States, Historiography.
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West (U.S.), Historiography.
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United States.
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West United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973/.07/2
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| LC Classification
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E179.5.H186 2003eb
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| NLM classification
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18.06bcl
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