Amy Kohout, "Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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How Do We Connect Landscapes That Are Part of Totally Separate History?
The book spans almost the length of the life of somebody like Merns. I think there's something bigger here about what it means to follow sources everywhere they go and maybe not stop when they cross over toSomething that might be traditionally considered a different realm or a different field of study. But you're right that there are a lot of really fascinating people in this project. Many of them, US Army men, right? Many of them,. white, many of them. That maybe a lot of our ideas about American notions of nature might originate from.
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