Love of the Land: Essential Farm and Conservation Readings from an American Golden Age, 1880–1920
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“The Ploughboy”

48

John Muir

“Walking”

53

Henry David Thoreau

“Birds and the Services They Render”

62

Edmund Morris

“Preliminary Report Upon Yosemiteand Big Tree Grove”

69

Frederick Law Olmsted

“Phases of Farm Life”

73

John Burroughs

Part I: The Gilded Age, Readings 1880–1899

Introducing the Gilded Age

81

Farm Pages: The Gilded Age

94

“Footpaths”

101

John Burroughs

“Selections from Specimen Days and Notes Left Over”

107

Walt Whitman

“Ranching the Badlands”

113

Theodore Roosevelt

“The Home Garden”

122

Tuisco Greiner