Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing
Editat de Joel Greenbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2008
In the literary imagination, Chicago evokes images of industry and unbridled urban growth. But the tallgrass prairie and deep forests that once made up Chicago’s landscape also inspired musings from residents and visitors alike. In Of Prairie, Woods, and Water, naturalist Joel Greenberg gathers these unique voices from the land to present an unexpected portrait of Chicago in this often charming, sometimes heart-wrenching anthology of nature writing.
These writings tell the tale of a land in transition—one with abundant, unique, and incredibly lush flora and fauna, a natural history quite elusive today. Drawing on archives he uncovered while writing his acclaimed A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg hand-selected these first-person narratives, all written between 1721 and 1959. Not every author is familiar, but every contribution is distinctive. From a pioneer’s hilarious notes on life in the Kankakee marsh to Theodore Drieser’s poignant plea for conservation of the Tippecanoe River to infamous murderer Nathan Leopold’s charming description of a pet robin he kept in prison, the sources included are as diverse as the nature they describe.
The excerpts conclude with insightful biographical essays and traverse a wide area of greater Chicagoland, from the Illinois River to southwest Michigan, from southern Wisconsin to the Limberlost swamp of northeastern Indiana. A fascinating record of Chicago’s changing environmental history, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water captures the natural world in a way that will inspire its continued conservation.
Errata: We have learned the title of a book by the Chicago ecologist and writer May Theilgaard Watts has been incorrectly rendered in the selections attributed to Mrs. Watts. The correct title of her book is Reading the Landscape of America (Nature Study Guild Publishers, see http://naturestudy.com). This will be corrected in the next printing. We very much regret the error.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226306612
ISBN-10: 0226306615
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226306615
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Joel Greenberg is a naturalist, writer, and environmental consultant. He is the author of A Natural History of the Chicago Region and coauthor of A Birder’s Guide to the Chicago Region.
Cuprins
Preface
The Chicago Region—Introduction
LANDSCAPE
Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres
Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
William Johnston's Tour from Fort Wayne to Chicago, 1809
William Johnston
A Visitor to Chicago in Indian Days: "Journal to the Far-Off West"
Colbee Benton
Talk of the Town
Robert P. Saunders
A Summer Journey in the West
Eliza Steele
Berrien and Cass Counties
G. F.
Sketches of My Own Times
David Turpie
Rats! Rats! Rats!
Carl Schurz
Prince of Wales in Canada and the United States
Nicholas A. Woods
Breeding habits of Ardea heroias as Seen During a Visit to Crane Town
B.
The Shooting Clubs of Chicago—No. IX: The Grand Calumet Heights Club
Emerson Hough
Voices of the Dunes and Other Etchings
Earl Reed
Tales of a Vanishing River [The "Wether Book" by Josiah Granger]
Earl Reed
Most Interesting Interview with Mrs. Druscilla Carr
J. W. Lester
The Tippecanoe River
Theodore Dreiser
An Early Illinois Prairie
Albert W. Herre
The Kankakee in the Old days
F. E. Ling
A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region
Elliot Downing
A Hoosier Tramp
Samuel A. Harper
The Sand Dunes of Indiana
E. Stillman Bailey
BOTANY
Our Native Grasses
George Vasey
Prairie Woodlands
Ellsworth Jerome Hill
The Plant Societies of Chicago and Vicinity
Henry Chandler Cowles
Round About Chicago
Louella Chapin
Reading the Landscape of America
May T. Watts
On Improving the Property
May T. Watts
Impressions of the Warren Woods
Wendell Paddock
An Annotated Flora of the Chicago Area
Herman S. Pepoon
Dune Boy: The Early Years of a Naturalist
Edwin Way Teale
LAND ANIMALS
Pigeons!
Darius Cook
Notes on the Ornithology of Wisconsin
Philo R. Hoy
The Quadrupeds of Illinois, Injurious and Beneficial to the farmer
Robert Kennicott
Recollections of Bird-Life in Pioneer Days
Halvor L. Skavlem
Birds of Northeastern Illinois
Edward W. Nelson
Birds of Lakeside and Prairie
Edward B. Clark
Nature Sketches in Temperate America
Joseph Lane Hancock
Months of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter
A Day Among the Waterfowl and Its Sequel
G. Eifrig
Memoirs of the Naturalist
Herbert L. Stoddard Sr.
Bird Notes from Trailside Museum
Mary Block
[Notes on a Woodcock]
The Chicago Region—Introduction
LANDSCAPE
Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres
Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
William Johnston's Tour from Fort Wayne to Chicago, 1809
William Johnston
A Visitor to Chicago in Indian Days: "Journal to the Far-Off West"
Colbee Benton
Talk of the Town
Robert P. Saunders
A Summer Journey in the West
Eliza Steele
Berrien and Cass Counties
G. F.
Sketches of My Own Times
David Turpie
Rats! Rats! Rats!
Carl Schurz
Prince of Wales in Canada and the United States
Nicholas A. Woods
Breeding habits of Ardea heroias as Seen During a Visit to Crane Town
B.
The Shooting Clubs of Chicago—No. IX: The Grand Calumet Heights Club
Emerson Hough
Voices of the Dunes and Other Etchings
Earl Reed
Tales of a Vanishing River [The "Wether Book" by Josiah Granger]
Earl Reed
Most Interesting Interview with Mrs. Druscilla Carr
J. W. Lester
The Tippecanoe River
Theodore Dreiser
An Early Illinois Prairie
Albert W. Herre
The Kankakee in the Old days
F. E. Ling
A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region
Elliot Downing
A Hoosier Tramp
Samuel A. Harper
The Sand Dunes of Indiana
E. Stillman Bailey
BOTANY
Our Native Grasses
George Vasey
Prairie Woodlands
Ellsworth Jerome Hill
The Plant Societies of Chicago and Vicinity
Henry Chandler Cowles
Round About Chicago
Louella Chapin
Reading the Landscape of America
May T. Watts
On Improving the Property
May T. Watts
Impressions of the Warren Woods
Wendell Paddock
An Annotated Flora of the Chicago Area
Herman S. Pepoon
Dune Boy: The Early Years of a Naturalist
Edwin Way Teale
LAND ANIMALS
Pigeons!
Darius Cook
Notes on the Ornithology of Wisconsin
Philo R. Hoy
The Quadrupeds of Illinois, Injurious and Beneficial to the farmer
Robert Kennicott
Recollections of Bird-Life in Pioneer Days
Halvor L. Skavlem
Birds of Northeastern Illinois
Edward W. Nelson
Birds of Lakeside and Prairie
Edward B. Clark
Nature Sketches in Temperate America
Joseph Lane Hancock
Months of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter
A Day Among the Waterfowl and Its Sequel
G. Eifrig
Memoirs of the Naturalist
Herbert L. Stoddard Sr.
Bird Notes from Trailside Museum
Mary Block
[Notes on a Woodcock]
Stephen S. Gregory Jr.
Bird Life of a Roadside Marsh
Alfred M. Bailey
American Egrets in the Lake Region
W. J. Beecher
Green Herons
Donald Boyd
Passenger Pigeon in Northeastern Illinois
Benjamin T. Gault
Reminiscences of Early Experiences in teh Chicago Area
Benjamin T. Gault
Geolycosa, The Wolf of the Dunes
Donald C. Lowrie
The Opossum, Prophet without Honor
D. Dwight Davis
Pyramids of Palos
A. S. Windsor
On the Trail of the Chat
Amy Baldwin
Cliff Swallows
Violet F. Hammond
An Old Colony of Cliff Swallows
Alfred Lewy
Wildlife of Elk Grove Preserve
Gordon Sawyer Pearsall
My Secret Places: One Man's Love Affair with Nature in the City
Leonard Dubkin
Life Plus 99 Years
Nathan F. Leopold Jr.
WATER WORLD
Letter to Spencer F. Baird [Regarding Crayfish]
R. P. Stearns
Southern Cook County and History of Blue Island Before the Civil War
Ferdinand Schapper
Sea and River Fishing: Fish in Season in November
S. C. Clarke
Letter [Fish Pot Hunters]
Pickerel
Black Bass Fishing in Fox River
Fred J. Wells
Gleanings from Nature
W. S. Blatchley
The Fish Market of Chicago
Illinois Board of Fish Commissioners
Animal Communities in Temperate North America
Victor Shelford
The Nesting Habits of Certain Sunfishes as Observed in a Park Lagoon in Chicago
Carl L. Hubbs
A River Mussel Parasitic on a Salamander
Arthur D. Howard
A Survey of Fishes in an Illinois Stream
Loren P. Woods
Observations on Lake Michigan Fishes at Chicago
Loren P. Woods
MINDSCAPES
Miscellany [Wolf Hunts]
H.
Six Months with the Indians
Darius B. Cook
Letter in Defense of Snakes
John Kennicott
A History of the County of Du Page, Illinois
C. W. Richmond and H. F. Vallette
A Day's Hunting in 1871 on the Club's Ground
South Shore Country Club
Field, Clover, and Trap Shooting
Adam Bogardus
History of Kendall County
E. W. Hicks
Game Hunt
Anonymous
Duck Shooting Around Fox Lake
Anonymous
Then and Now—the Extermination of Game
Lowther
Prairie Chicken Shooting and Trapping Fifty Years Ago
Anonymous
Plover Shooting on the Prairie
Rock Jr.
Recollections of Calumet
Blue Wing
A Plea for the Wild Duck
Anonymous
Statement Read before the Central Illinois Sportsman's Association by Its President
George Hayden
Letter from Princeton, Illinois [in Favor of Hunting Hawks]
Anonymous
Letter [Wasteful Hunting on the Des Plaines River]
J. G. Nattrass
Our Hearts were Young and Gay
Edward R. Ford
Skokie Memories
Edward R. Ford
The Naturalist
Edawrd R. Ford
Who Kills the Birds?
Mary Drummond
Colonel Isaac Washington Brown: The Bird and Bee Man
Henry A. Pershing
When the Lotus Are in Bloom
Laura Buchannon
Letter to Illinois Audobon Society
Olga Vrablik
Nature Recreation in Chicago
William G. Vinal
A Prairie Grove
Donald Culross Peattie
Some Scenes Years Ago at the Dunes Recalled with Great Pleasure
Donald Culross Peattie
Chicago Park District vs. Arthur Canfield
Illinois Supreme Court
Siftings
Jens Jensen
Bird Life of a Roadside Marsh
Alfred M. Bailey
American Egrets in the Lake Region
W. J. Beecher
Green Herons
Donald Boyd
Passenger Pigeon in Northeastern Illinois
Benjamin T. Gault
Reminiscences of Early Experiences in teh Chicago Area
Benjamin T. Gault
Geolycosa, The Wolf of the Dunes
Donald C. Lowrie
The Opossum, Prophet without Honor
D. Dwight Davis
Pyramids of Palos
A. S. Windsor
On the Trail of the Chat
Amy Baldwin
Cliff Swallows
Violet F. Hammond
An Old Colony of Cliff Swallows
Alfred Lewy
Wildlife of Elk Grove Preserve
Gordon Sawyer Pearsall
My Secret Places: One Man's Love Affair with Nature in the City
Leonard Dubkin
Life Plus 99 Years
Nathan F. Leopold Jr.
WATER WORLD
Letter to Spencer F. Baird [Regarding Crayfish]
R. P. Stearns
Southern Cook County and History of Blue Island Before the Civil War
Ferdinand Schapper
Sea and River Fishing: Fish in Season in November
S. C. Clarke
Letter [Fish Pot Hunters]
Pickerel
Black Bass Fishing in Fox River
Fred J. Wells
Gleanings from Nature
W. S. Blatchley
The Fish Market of Chicago
Illinois Board of Fish Commissioners
Animal Communities in Temperate North America
Victor Shelford
The Nesting Habits of Certain Sunfishes as Observed in a Park Lagoon in Chicago
Carl L. Hubbs
A River Mussel Parasitic on a Salamander
Arthur D. Howard
A Survey of Fishes in an Illinois Stream
Loren P. Woods
Observations on Lake Michigan Fishes at Chicago
Loren P. Woods
MINDSCAPES
Miscellany [Wolf Hunts]
H.
Six Months with the Indians
Darius B. Cook
Letter in Defense of Snakes
John Kennicott
A History of the County of Du Page, Illinois
C. W. Richmond and H. F. Vallette
A Day's Hunting in 1871 on the Club's Ground
South Shore Country Club
Field, Clover, and Trap Shooting
Adam Bogardus
History of Kendall County
E. W. Hicks
Game Hunt
Anonymous
Duck Shooting Around Fox Lake
Anonymous
Then and Now—the Extermination of Game
Lowther
Prairie Chicken Shooting and Trapping Fifty Years Ago
Anonymous
Plover Shooting on the Prairie
Rock Jr.
Recollections of Calumet
Blue Wing
A Plea for the Wild Duck
Anonymous
Statement Read before the Central Illinois Sportsman's Association by Its President
George Hayden
Letter from Princeton, Illinois [in Favor of Hunting Hawks]
Anonymous
Letter [Wasteful Hunting on the Des Plaines River]
J. G. Nattrass
Our Hearts were Young and Gay
Edward R. Ford
Skokie Memories
Edward R. Ford
The Naturalist
Edawrd R. Ford
Who Kills the Birds?
Mary Drummond
Colonel Isaac Washington Brown: The Bird and Bee Man
Henry A. Pershing
When the Lotus Are in Bloom
Laura Buchannon
Letter to Illinois Audobon Society
Olga Vrablik
Nature Recreation in Chicago
William G. Vinal
A Prairie Grove
Donald Culross Peattie
Some Scenes Years Ago at the Dunes Recalled with Great Pleasure
Donald Culross Peattie
Chicago Park District vs. Arthur Canfield
Illinois Supreme Court
Siftings
Jens Jensen