The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States

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560 a AAA (American Automobile Association ), 385, 501n72 Abbott, Benjamin, 23–26, 47–48 Abbott, Sarah, 23–26, 48 abductions into slavery, 103–4, 449n10 abortion, 425 accidents, on transcontinental railroad project, 248–49 Across the Continent (Palmer), 257–58 Adams, Abigail, 79, 82–83 Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 208 Adams, John, 57, 82, 408 Adams, John Quincy, 456n23, 457n27 Adams, Samuel, 74, 93 Adas, Michael, 254 Aedes mosquitoes, 132 Afghanistan, 398 African American Environmental Thought (Smith), 416 African American history, education in, 331 African Americans: black Revolutionary soldiers and disease, 91; class and, 329, 333, 335; conservatism and, 423–24; entrepreneurs and professionals, 329; Exoduster emigrations, 322–25; free black capture in Civil War, 212; free blacks and natural law, 87; Lincoln Memorial and, 5; not citizens under Dred Scott, 174; and railroad jobs, 328–29; Reconstruction, freedom, and repression in, 411–13; travel and, 414, 415; in Union army, 188–89; white flight and, 355, 376, 423–24. See also color line, Topeka, and Brown v. Board of Education; race; slavery agency vs. determinism and natural constraints, 11 agriculture: Civil War and, 205–6; colonial vs. European systems, 66–67; corn, 123–24, 205–6; Native vs. colonial land conceptions and, 31; slave gardens, 125–26. See also cotton and the plantation slave system AIDS/HIV, 422–23, 507n55 Akin, James, 141 Alamogordo Bombing Range (NM), 306–11 alcohol: as energy source, 370–73; Lincoln on, 171–72 Alexander, Jack, 326, 330, 342–43, 344 Allen, Ethan, 77 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. iNdex 561 Allison, Samuel, 307 Alston, Raleigh, 381 American Automobile Association (AAA), 385, 501n72 American Revolution and natural law: American Indians and, 64–65, 96–98; blacks, slavery, and, 65, 84–93; environmental conditions and, 406; European intellectual roots, 70–73; Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence , 57–62; Lockean theory of natural law and natural rights, 72–74; Paine and other Revolutionary rhetoric , 63, 74–75, 82; Revolutionary War and, 75–76; separation and distinction from Britain and, 63–70; Vermont and the Green Mountain Boys, 76–78; westward expansion and, 93–99; women and, 78–84 Anderson, Fred, 69 Andrews, Thomas, 479n86 animals: dogs, 39, 45, 127–28, 130, 453n83; domestication of, 459n67; as energy source, 370; on flags, 143; human associations with, 139, 141; Satan associated with, 53; transcontinental railroad workers and, 476n57; witches and “familiars,” 39, 53, 139, 140. See also hogs and pork; livestock and draft animals Anopheles mosquitoes, 132 Antelope (locomotive engine), 471n10 Antinomians, 35–36 Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company ), 377 Arcade Creek, 239 ARCO (Atlantic Richfield), 373 Argos, Al, 308 Argos, May, 308 Army Corps of Engineers, 281–82, 292–94 Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, 234 Army of Northern Virginia. See Gettysburg , battle of Army of the Potomac. See Gettysburg, battle of army worm, 114–15 art and atomic scientists, 288–89 assembly lines, 418–19 Athearn, Robert, 244 atomic research. See Manhattan Project and the atom bomb Aunt Phebe, 137 automobile culture, 368–69, 374–76, 383, 397, 399. See also energy, oil, and the 1973–1974 oil shock autoworkers strikes, 416, 418–19 Ayers, Goodwife, 40 b Bacher, Jean, 314 Bacher, Robert, 297 Backus, Isaac, 404 Bacon, Francis, 58, 59 Bacon, Henry, 6 Bagley, Will, 479n86 Bailey, J. Martin, 388 Bain, David, 252 Bainbridge, Joan, 299 Bainbridge, Kenneth, 299, 307, 308, 311 Baker, Edward, 193 Ball, Charles, 108–9, 116, 125–29 Banneker, Benjamin, 87–88 Barcley, Harold B., 474n47 Bass (Canadian man), 136–37 Becker, Carl, 74 Beebe, Lucius, 479n92 Behringer, Wolfgang, 436n10 Belk, Bettie, 350 Bell, Andrew McIlwaine, 464n9 Bellagrazie, Patrick, 381 Bender, Thomas, 497n8 Benton, Thomas Hart, 230, 233–34 Beringer, Richard E., 464n6 562 iNdex Berlin, Ira, 86, 88 Bethe, Hans, 273, 296, 297, 302, 304, 309, 316 Bethe, Rose, 316 bicycling, 279, 370, 392–95, 401 Big Harry (enslaved laborer), 113 “big science,” Manhattan Project as, 482n34 Bill of Rights, 96 Birch, William, 137 Bissell, Hezekiah, 256, 479n92 Black Giant oil field, 372–73, 376 Black Goose (locomotive engine), 252 Black Hills, 240, 241 Blackstone, William, 167 Bledsoe, Charles, 346–47 Bob (enslaved laborer), 136, 137 body, human: American, compared to European, 66; assembly lines and, 418–19; athletics, bodily proximity, and race relations, 343; atom bomb and, 312–13; Civil War and moving by legs and feet, 222–23; colonial beliefs about Indian bodies, 29–30; conservatism and, 425; dead bodies on Gettysburg...