"This study situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who, between the Civil War and World War I, defined and secured a place for nature in mainstream American culture." "James Perrin Warren shows how Burroughs helpe…
Introduction. -- Tales of dominion. -- The plow and the gun. -- Picturing the West, 1883-1893. -- American idol, 1898. -- The end of nature. -- African romance. -- The dark continent. -- When cowboys go to heaven. -- Transplanting Africa. -- Of ape-men, sex, and cannibal kings. …
With his square, bulldoggish stature, signature rimless glasses, and inimitable smile - part grimace, part snarl - Theodore Roosevelt was an unforgettable figure, imprinted on the American memory through photographs, the chiseled face of Mount Rushmore, and, especially, film. At…
With his square, bulldoggish stature, signature rimless glasses, and inimitable smile - part grimace, part snarl - Theodore Roosevelt was an unforgettable figure, imprinted on the American memory through photographs, the chiseled face of Mount Rushmore, and, especially, film. At…
