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Acknowledgments This book began long ago as Charlotte Porter’s idea to publish outstanding papers presented at a biennial meeting of the Bartram Trail Conference held in Gainesville, Florida. Other papers and discussions from subsequent meetings and symposiums devoted to Bartram scholarship joined the line-up.Thus, the papers collected here were presented in Gainesville, Florida; Augusta, Georgia ; Cashiers, North Carolina; and, in Alabama at Montgomery, Auburn, and Spanish Fort. We would like to thank our contributors for their support of the Bartram Trail Conference, Bartram scholarship, and this book. We would also like to thank our many hosts and sponsors: the University of Florida Museum of Natural History;the University of Florida Libraries;the Alabama Department of Archives and History; the Alabama Historical Commission; Augusta State University’s Center for the Study of Georgia History; the Carolyn Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities at Auburn University; the Special Collections of the Ralph B. Draughon Library at Auburn University; the Cashiers Historical Society; 5 Rivers: Alabama’s Delta Resource Center; the Baldwin County Department of Archives and History and The University of Alabama Museum of Natural History (whose canoes provided a fluvial reward for our presenters on two occasions). And special thanks to some of the special people whose continued generosity and enthusiasm keep Bartram scholars moving along Bartram’s Trail: Edwin Bridges, the late Ed Cashin, Mary Ann Cashin, John Hall, Randy Mecredy, John Jackson, Hank Burch, Jan Wyatt, Dwayne Cox, Jay Lamar, and Jacob Lowrey. Sarah Mattics, of the University of South Alabama’s Center for Archaeological Studies, prepared the comprehensive map of Bartram’s route (page xiii). A number of Bartram scholars provided assistance and helpful advice on matters ranging from plant identification to stylistic matters. For their xvi Acknowledgments good-natured and prompt responses to our many questions, we wish to thank Gregory A. Waselkov, John Hall, Tom Hallock, Jim Kautz, Brad Sanders, and Joel T. Fry. We especially thank the following repositories that provided illustrations from their collections: the Independence National Historical Park, Bartram’s Gardens, and the American Philosophical Society Library, all in Philadelphia; the George A. Smathers Libraries and the University of Florida Herbarium at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville; the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; the British Natural History Museum, London; the University of Wisconsin Library’s Digital Collections; and the Sterling Morton Library, Lisle, Illinois. Finally, we thank the officers and members of our very special organization, the Bartram Trail Conference. The loyal members who trouped from Alachua to Tensaw always constituted enthusiastic audiences full of eager ears, informed questions, and full-hearted support for scholars from every field. Like Bartram, their curiosity, quest for knowledge, and joy in the exploration of the natural world has sustained and inspired us. [44.197.114.92] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:51 GMT) Fields of Vision ...