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Brian Black is professor of history and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona and the author or editor of several books, including Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom and Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). This article is part of his forthcoming book Gettysburg Contested: Preserving a Cherished American Landscape (George F. Thompson, 2013).

Lisa M. Brady is associate professor of history at Boise State University. Her first book, War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War, was recently published by the University of Georgia Press (2012).

Megan Kate Nelson is a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (University of Georgia Press, 2012).

Matthew M. Stith is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Tyler. He is completing a book on nature and irregular warfare on the Trans-Mississippi frontier during the Civil War. [End Page 300]

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