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Description: The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875
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Academy of Arts and Sciences, 87
Adams, Henry, 5, 118
Adirondack Mountains, 11, 19, 95
Agassiz, Alexander, 113, 118
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, 115
Agassiz, Louis, xi, 7, 60, 67, 69, 75, 109, 112–21, 148, 154n.31, figs. 36, 62
Étude sur les glaciers, 117, fig. 64
Geological Sketches, 6
ice-age theory of, 14, 117–21, 167nn. 19, 28
and Nahant, 114–21
Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women, 78
Alison, Archibald, On the Nature and Principles of Taste, 94
American Academy of Fine Arts, 28
American Art Union, 47, 93
American Association for the Advancement of Truth in Art, 8
American Geographical and Statistical Society, 8
American Geological Society, 25, 117
American Museum (of P. T. Barnum), 80
American Philosophical Society, 8
anatomy, 23–24, 50
Apollo Belvedere, 10
Appleton, Thomas Gold, 112, 114, 167n.14
art and science, ix, 8, 69, 74–75, 119, 123–24, 130, 145, 149–50
astronomy, 5
Audubon, John James, Greater Prairie-Chicken, 103, fig. 56
Augustus Prima Porta, 71
Austin, Jane, Northanger Abbey, 91
Avery, Kevin, 76, 78
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 89
Barbizon school, 147
Barnum, Phineas T., 80–81
Beaux, Cecilia, 154n.30
Beverly, Mass., 86–87, 101
Bible, 4–5, 15, 33, 52, 167n.28. See also creation of the earth; Deluge, the; Eden, Garden of; religion
Bierstadt, Albert, x, 5, 14, 154n.31, 164n.62
Mount Hope, 164n.62
Blake, William, 50, 54
Boston Athenaeum, 24, 75, 113, 167n.14
botany, 4, 50, 75–76, 93, 99, 100, 101
Brewer, William H., 99
Bryant, William Cullen, 45, 55, 94
“The Forest Hymn,” 64
Picturesque America, 91–92, 94, 98, 103, fig. 49
“Thanatopsis,” 58, 60
Buckland, Rev. William, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, 4
Buek, Gustave, 128
Buffon, Comte de, Histoire Naturelle, 10
Bunce, O. B., 98
Bunyan, John, Pilgrim’s Progress, 78, 144
Burlingame, E. L., “Highlands and Palisades of the Hudson,” 94
Burne-Jones, Edward, 150
Byron, George Gordon, 47
Childe Harold, 40–41
Cary, Thomas Graves, 115
Casilear, John, 87, 159n.10
catastrophist theory, 36, 125, 162nn. 15, 18
Catskill Mountains, 47, 87–88, 94, 101, 148
Haines Falls, 87, 93
Kaaterskill (Catskill) Falls, 20, 87, 93
Kaaterskill (Catskill) Gorge, 19
cemeteries, 57, 60, 64–65
Century Association, 8, 113, 154n.31
Channing, William Ellery, 54
Chautauqua Movement, 148
Childs, Elizabeth, x, 38–39, 155n.48
Chimborazo, Ecuador, 76
Chocorua, See Mount Chocorua
Christ, Carol, 149, 159n.8
Church, Frederic, 8, 54, 67–83, 85, 151, 154n.31, 161n.4, 163nn. 27, 28
collaboration with scientists, xi, 74–75
and education of the public, xi, 69, 74–83
exhibition paintings of, xi, 67, 69, 74–81, 86
and geology, 13, 69, 81–83
and nationalism, xi, 72, 81
religious interpretation of nature by, xi, 70–73, 75–81, 78, 149, 163n.33
as student of Cole, xi, 69–71, 83; works by:
Coast Scene, Mount Desert, 74
Cotopaxi, 81–83, fig. 41
The Heart of the Andes, 74–81, 83, 86, 144, fig. 40
The Icebergs, 74
The Natural Bridge, Virginia, 70–74, 81, 83, 162nn. 15, 18, fig. 38
Civil War, ix–xi, 15, 67, 69, 74, 81–83, 121, 147, 150, 158n.50, 163n.27
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), 14, 91
Colburn, J. E., 138
Cole, Thomas, xi, 17–45, 49, 50, 55, 58, 69–70, 88, 148–49
and Church, xi, 69–71, 83
and the Deluge, 29–33, 36, 41–43
“Essay on American Scenery,” 94
geological study of, xi, 13, 15, 17–24, 27–30, 45, 52, 156n.2
mineral collection of, 17–18, fig. 5
patrons of, xi, 7, 24–28, 29, 33, 38–39, 45, 158n.62
and Silliman, 13, 18–19, 28, 29
and the Willey Disaster, 41–45
works by:
Corway [Chocorua] Peak, New Hampshire, 20, figs. 9, 47
The Course of Empire series, 26, 29, 33–41, 45, 55
The Savage State, 33, figs. 18, 20
The Pastoral State, 33, 40, figs. 19, 24
The Consummation of Empire, 33, 40, fig. 21
Destruction, 33, 40, fig. 22
Desolation, 33, fig. 23
Cross and the World, 88
“The Deluge,” 30–32
Drawing of Rocks, 30, fig. 15
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, 21, 29, 70–74, 162nn. 15, 18, fig. 11
Falls of Kaaterskill, 20, fig. 6
The Garden of Eden, 29
Landscape Composition, Italian Scenery, 158n.62
Notch in the White Mountains, From Above with the Notch House, 43, fig. 26
Scene from “The Last of the Mohicans” (N.Y. State Historical Association), 25, 29, 33, fig. 13
(Wadsworth Atheneum), 29, 33, fig. 17
Sketch of Boston from an Old Fortification at Roxbury, 19, fig. 6
Sketch of Monument Rock near Sand Beach, Mount Desert, 19, fig. 7
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 30, fig. 16
View of Corroway [Chocorua] Peak in New Hampshire–Sun Setting, 25
A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 21, 41–45, 95, 158n.62, 159n.64, fig. 25
View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, after a Storm, 20, fig. 10
Voyage of Life: Youth, 88, 21, fig. 12
Colorado River, 124–25, 138–40
Comstock, J. L., Outlines of Geology, 18, 30, 156n.2
Cook, Clarence, 49, 105, 135–36
Cook, Jay, 129
Cooper, James Fenimore, 94, 98
The Last of the Mohicans, 33, 98
Cope, Edward, 154n.30
Copley, John Singleton, 14
Corroway (Corway) Peak, See Mount Chocorua
Cotopaxi, Ecuador, 81–83, fig. 41
Cozzens, Abraham M., 89
Cozzens Hotel, 89–90
Crawford Notch, N.H., 29, 41–45, 95, 158n.62, 159n.64, fig. 25
Crayon (periodical), 51
creation of the earth, xi, 4–5, 52–53, 135
six days of, 4–5, 52. See also catastrophist theory; geology, and Creator/God; uniformitarian theory
Cropsey, Jasper F., x, 13, 54
Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, 101
Curtis, George William, 112
Lotus Eating, 86, 93, 98
Cuyler, Rev. Theodore L., 88
Darwin, Charles Robert, xi, 52–53, 140, 149
Origin of the Species, 115, 161n.4
Daston, Lorraine, 150
death, 58–65
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company, 89
Deluge, the, 4, 15, 29–33, 36, 41–43, 52, 83, 117, 125, 157n.45, 158n.59, 167n.28
Dix, John, A Handbook of Newport and Rhode Island, 100, 107
Downing, Andrew Jackson, 57–58
Durand, Asher Brown, xi, 13, 23, 47–65, 69, 126, 148, 151, 154n.31, 159n.10
clientele for, 56–58
“Letters on Landscape Painting,” 51, 55, 64
and the microcosm, xi, 47, 53–55
and morality, 51–53, 149
and mortality, xi, 47, 58–65
nature studies of, xi, 47–50, 53, 55–56, 58, 60, 65
and therapeutic culture, xi, 47, 55–58
works of:
The Fountain, 47–49
Green Mountain Scenery, Stratton Gap, 57
Landscape: Creek and Rocks, 47, 49, 53–54, 159n.8, fig. 27
Landscape Scene from “Thanatopsis,” 58–60, fig. 29
An Old Man’s Lesson, 58
An Old Man’s Reminiscences, 58
Rocks and Trees in the Catskills, 58–60, fig. 30
Rocky Cliff, 60–64, fig. 32
The Solitary Oak, 55
Studies from Nature, 47–49
Study from Nature: Rocks and Trees, 60, fig. 31
The Sycamore, Kaaterskill Clove, 56, fig. 28
Durand, Caroline, 47
Durand, Eliza, 58
Durand, John, 51, 55, 58, 148–49
Eden, Garden of, 21, 29, 70–74
America as, 72
Edmonds, Francis, 159n.10
education, ix, 8–11, 67–69, 75, 83, 163n.33
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 54, 67, 115, 117–18, 154n.31
Emmons, Ebenezer, 18
Emmons, S. F., 154n.31
Enlightenment, the, 8, 10
erosion, 19, 71, 78, 83, 105, 125, 127, 136, 138–40
erratic boulders, 29–30, 33, 36, 41, 43, 117, fig. 14
evolution, 52–53, 121, 149. See also Darwin; materialist science
Featherstonhaugh, George, 7, 24–25, 27, 28
Featherston Park, N.Y., 25
Felton, Cornelius, 118
Field, Cyrus, 72, 162n.23
Figuier, Louis, The World Before the Deluge, 69
Flood (Biblical), See Deluge, the
fossils, 10–11, 18, 53, 131, 147, 154n.30, 157n.45
Friedrich, Caspar David, x
Furness, Rev. William, 94
Galison, Peter, 150
Garczynski, R. E., “Niagara, 103
Gardner, James T., 8
geography, 74–76. See also geological surveys
geography of plants, 75–78
geological forms: diluvial drift, 29–30, 41, 43
erratic boulders, 29–30, 33, 36, 41, 43, 117, fig. 14
roches moutonnés, 142–44
U-shaped valleys, 29, 117
geological processes: erosion, 19, 71, 78, 83, 105, 125, 127, 136, 138–40
glaciation, 14–15, 29, 115–21, 140–44, 167n.19
volcanic activity, 19, 76–78, 81–83, 115, 118, 121, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 158n.59
geological surveys, xi, 14, 88, 123–45
artists of, 123–25, 168n.2
California Geological Survey, 88
Fortieth Parallel Survey (King’s), 88, 123–24, 168n.2
Geographical Surveys of the Territories West of the 100th Meridian (Wheeler’s), 124
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Hayden’s), 88, 123–25, 128–29, 140, 168n.2
Geographical and Topographical Survey of the Colorado River of the West (Powell’s), 124–25, 138
New York State Geological Survey, 7, 168n.2
Massachusetts Geological Survey, 88
Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 168n.2
United States Geological Survey, 125
Virginia Geological Survey, 168n.2
geological theories: of the Deluge, 4, 15, 29–30, 33, 36, 43, 117, 125, 157n.45, 158n.59, 167n.28
of the ice age, 14–15, 117–21, 147, 167nn. 19, 28
catastrophism, 36, 125, 162nn. 15, 18
uniformitarianism, 52, 125, 162nn. 15, 18
geology: and age of the earth, 4–5, 52–53, 147
and Creator/God, xi, 4, 8, 15, 28, 56, 83, 115, 149
and economic gain, 6–7, 28, 88
popularity of, x, xi, 3–15, 51, 85, 147–50
popular lectures on, 3, 6, 7, 28, 67, 69, 114–15, 148. See also geological forms; geological processes; geological surveys; geological theories; nationalism, and geology; religion, and geology; social status in America, and geology; tourism, and geology
Gifford, Sanford, 14, 130–31, 154n.31, 168n.2
Gilder, Richard Watson, 129, 135
Gilmor, Robert, 25–27, 29, 33
glaciers, 14–15, 29, 115–21, 140–44, 167n.19. See also ice-age theory
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold, 158n.62
Grand Canyon, ix, 6, 87, 125, 128, 132–36, 138–40, fig. 71
Kaibab Plateau, 138
Greely, Horace, 115
Greenough, Horatio, 60
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 60
Hague, James D., 154n.31
Hales, Peter, 124
Haltman, Kenneth, x
Harris, Neil, 81
Harvard University, 113, 166n.1
Agassiz course, 115, 118–19
Geological Museum, 8–10
Natural History Society, 118
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, 47, 159n.3
Haseltine, John, 113
Haseltine, William Stanley, 15, 109–21
and Agassiz, xi, 14, 109–21
works by:
Rocks at Nahant paintings, xi, 109–21, 166n.1, figs. 58–59, 65–66
The Rocks at Nahant (Brooklyn Museum), 109, 119–21, fig. 58
The Rocks at Nahant (Terra Museum), 109, 119–21, fig. 59
“The Shore,” 167n.14
Hatch, George W., Chocorua’s Curse (after Cole, Corway Peak, New Hampshire), 95, fig. 47
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 95
“The Ambitious Guest,” 44–45, 158n.62
Hayden, Ferdinand, ix, 7, 88, 99, 123–25, 128–32, 135, 139, 140, 148
The Yellowstone National Park, and the Mountain Regions of Portions of Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, and Utah, 142
Hicks, Edward, Peaceable Kingdom, 72, fig. 39
Hill, John Henry, 123, 168n.2
Hill, John William, 168n.2
history painting, 27, 45, 50
Hitchcock, Edward, 88, 99, 117
Geology of New Hampshire, 100
The Religion of Geology and its Connected Sciences, 4
Sketch of the Scenery of Massachusetts, 100
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 67, 112–13
Hone, Philip, 24, 28, 39
Hope, James, x
Hosack, Dr. David, 33, 157n.45
Howe, Julia Ward, 112, 118
Hudson, N.Y., 67
Hudson Highlands, 85, 89, 90, 94
Hudson River School, 13, 49
Humboldt, Alexander von, 74–76, 115
Aspects of Nature, 75
Cosmos, 74–75, 78, 85
and the geography of plants, 75–78
Personal Narrative of Travel in the Equinoctal Regions, 75
Huntington, Daniel, 101
Huntington, David, 81–83
Huntington, J. H., 100
Hutton, James, 52
ice-age theory, 14–15, 117–21, 147, 167nn. 19, 28
Impressionism, 147, 150–51
Irving, Washington, 94
Jackson, William Henry, 129–31, 140, fig. 69
Jaher, Frederic, 113
Jarves, James Jackson, 75
Jefferson, Thomas, 71, 155n.41
Notes on the State of Virginia, 71
Keith, William, x, 14, 87
Kelly, Franklin, x, 155n.48, 156n.2, 158n.62, 162n.15
Kensett, John, xi, 14, 85–107, 154n.31, 165n.25
patrons of, 86, 88–91
and scientific gaze, 101–7
and tourism, xi, 85–107, 113
and touristic gaze, 91–101
works by:
Bash Bish Falls, 94
Coast Scene with Figures (Beverly Shore), 91, fig. 44
The Fawn’s Leap, 101, fig. 54
Forty Steps, Newport, Rhode Island, 107, fig. 57
Lake George, 95–98, fig, 48
Landscape vignette of Lake George, 98, fig. 50
Landscape vignette of Niagara Falls, 86, fig. 42
Mount Chocorua, 94, 101, fig. 52
Newport Coast, 94
Niagara Falls, 101–5, fig. 55
Upper Mississippi, 101, fig. 53
View from Cozzens Hotel near West Point, 90, fig. 43
The White Mountains from the Valley of Conway, 93, fig. 45
King, Clarence, 8, 14, 88, 99, 123–25, 154n.31, 168n.2
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevadas, 88
Kinsey, Joni, 124, 129, 138–39, 144, 155n.48
Klonk, Charlotte, x
Koch, J. A., x
La Farge, John, 13–14
Lake George, N.Y., 85, 86, 95–98
Lake George Steamboat Company, 89
Lawall, David, 58, 159n.1
Leslie, C. R., 27
Lewes, George Henry, 54
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 112–13, 115
Loring, Charles, 86
Lowell, James Russell, 112–13
Lowell, John Amory, 115
Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 5
Lyell, Charles, 5–7, 67, 69, 115, 126, 148, 162nn. 15, 18
Principles of Geology, 52, 125, 156n.2
Mantell, Gideon, Thoughts on a Pebble, 54
Manthorne, Katherine, x, 78, 155n.48
Marcou, Jules, 6
Marsh, O. C., 154n.31
mastadons, 10, 155n.41
materialist science, xi, 52–53, 140, 149, 161n.4
Mather, William, Geology of New York, 69
meteorology, 4, 50
microcosm, notion of the, 54
Miller, Angela, 36
Miller, Hugh, 51–53; The Old Red Sandstone, 47, 51–52
mineral cabinets, 3, 17–18, 26–28, 69, 99, 148, 162n.23
Mitchell, Timothy, x
Monte Video, Conn., 24
morality, ix, xi, 6, 8, 40, 55, 64, 69–70
and education, 67, 83
and geology, xi, 15, 28, 51–53
Moran, Mary Nimmo, 138
Moran, Peter, 131
Moran, Thomas, xi, 14, 74, 87, 123–45, 147
and Ruskin, 126–29
and Turner, 126–29, 168n.15
works by:
The Chasm of the Colorado, 125, 136–40, fig. 72
Extinct Craters, Gardiner’s River, 131, fig. 70
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, ix, 125, 132–36, 139, 140, fig. 71
The Mountain of the Holy Cross, 125, 140–45, fig. 73
Petrified Forest, 147
Yellowstone travels of, ix, 123, 129–32, 135
Morse, Samuel F. B., 11, 155n.47
Benjamin Silliman, 11–13, fig. 4
Mountain of the Holy Cross, Colorado, 125, 140–45, fig. 73
Mount Auburn cemetery, Cambridge, 60, 65
Mount Chocorua (Corroway, Corway Peak), N.H., 20, 25, 94, 95, 101, figs. 9, 47, 52
Mount Vernon, Va., 121
Muir, John, 7, 99
Munger, Gilbert, x, 168n.2
Myers, Kenneth, 91
Nahant, Mass., 101, 109–21, 166n.1
National Academy of Design, 47–49, 113, 166n.1
nationalism, 5–6, 72, 81, 145
and geology, xi, 4, 5
Natural Bridge, Va., 70–74, 81, 83, 162nn. 15, 18, fig. 38
neoclassicism, 22, 55, 69
Newport, R.I., 94, 100–101, 107, 109
New World, America as, 5–6, 10
New York and Canada Railroad Company, 89
New York State Asylum, Utica, 57–58
Niagara Falls, 5, 19, 85, 86, 88, 101–5
Table Rock, 105
Noble, Rev. Louis L., 27, 45, 75, 78
Northern Pacific Railroad, 87, 129
Novak, Barbara, ix, 155n.48, 156n.2
Oakes, William, Scenery of the White Mountains, 101
Olana, N.Y., 67, 88
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 57
Olyphant, Robert M., 89
Orton, Edward, Jr., 147
Osgood, Dr., 105
Ostrom, John, 10
paleontology, 5, 6, 10, 155n.41
Parry, Ellwood C., III, x, 155n.48, 156n.2, 157n.40, 162n.15
patriotism, ix, 6, 8, io, 15, 28, 67, 70, 81–83
Peale, Charles Willson, 8–11, 13
museum of science and art, 8–10, 155n.34
The Artist in His Museum, 10–11, fig. 3
The Exhumation of the Mastodon, 10, figs. 1–2
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 113
Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 112, 115
picturesque, the, 14, 91–92, 94, 99, 105, 107, 132
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, Roman Tomb, 60, fig. 33
Powell, Baden, 53
Powell, John Wesley, 124–25, 138–40
Pre-Raphaelites: American, 8, 168n.2
British, 150
Quick, Michael, 13
Reed, Luman, 26–27, 33, 39–40, 58
religion: and geology, ix, xi, 4–6, 13, 28, 30, 51–53, 115, 47, 149
and science, xi, 69, 115, 140, 149, 167n.28. See also Bible; creation of the earth; Deluge, the; Eden, Garden of; geology, and Creator/God
Revolutionary War, 8, 28, 80, 94
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 22–23, 49–50, 127
Rhode Island coast, 86, 94, 100, 107, 166n.1
Richards, T. Addison, 87
Richards, William Trost, x, 13, 14
Rockwell, Charles, The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around, 93
Rocky Mountains, 140, 144, 164n.62
Royal Academy, London, 22
Royal Academy of Science, London, 157n.45
Royal Geological Society, London, 50
Rudwick, Martin, x
Ruskin, John, 8, 49–51, 53, 74–75, 94, 126–29, 149, 160n.15
Modern Painters, 49–51, 126–27
Salmagundi Club, 113
Santa Fe Railroad, 87
Saturday Club, 8, 154n.31
scientific illustration, 71, 149–50
Scribner’s Monthly, 6, 88, 129, 135, 136
Sears, John, 41–43
Shattuck, Aaron Draper, 87
Sheldon, George, 75
Silliman, Benjamin, 11–13, 18–19, 24, 25, 28, 36, 99, 148
and American Journal of Science, 24–26, 28, 43
and Cole, 13, 18–19, 28, 29
The Consistency of the Discoveries of Modern Geology with the Sacred History of the Creation and the Deluge, 4
and Morse, 11–13
portrait of, 11–13, fig. 4
Remarks Made on a Short Tour Between Hartford and Quebec in the Autumn of 1819, 99
Skinner, Mark, 57
Smillie, James, Consecration Dell, Mount Auburn Cemetery, fig. 37
Smith, Russell, x, 69, 168n.2
social status in America, 24–25, 27, 28, 67, 109–14
and geology, 7–8, 15, 27, 148
Sprague, Isaac, Nancy’s Bridge, near the White Mountains, 101, fig. 51
Stafford, Barbara, 71
Starr King, Thomas, 91–92
The White Hills, 91, 99–100
Stillman, William James, 14, 74, 154n.31
Sturgis, Russell, 135–36
sublime, 6, 23, 50, 54, 70, 101, 105, 121, 145
surveys, geological, See geological surveys
Sweetser, Moses, 100
Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences, 117
Tennyson, Alfred, 54
Thompson, Samuel W., 87
Thoreau, Henry David, 54, 154n.31
tourism, ix, xi, 15, 41, 85–107
and geology, 88, 99–101
guidebooks, 85, 87–88, 91–95, 99–101, 107
and landscape painting, 85–107, 113
travelogues, 70, 75, 86, 99, 103
Truettner, William, x, 155n.48
Trumbull, Harriet, 28
Trumbull, John, 28
Trumbull, Jonathan, 28
Tuckerman, Edward, 100
Tuckerman, Henry, 69, 74, 86, 101, 105, 121
Turner. J.M.W., 125–29, 168n.15
Liber Studiorum, 168n.15
The Rivers of France, 168n.15
The Upper Falls of the Tees, Yorkshire, 127, fig. 68
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 80, 113
uniformitarian theory, 52, 125, 162nn. 15, 18
Union Theological Seminary, 13
Ussher, James, archbishop of Armagh, 52
Vaux, Calvert, 57
volcanic activity, 19, 76–78, 81–83, 115, 118, 121, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 158n.59
Wadsworth, Daniel, 24, 27, 28, 29, 33
Wagner, Virginia, x, 155n.48
Walcott House, 87
Wallach, Alan, 27, 87
Walter, Cornelia, Mount Auburn Illustrated, 65
Weir, John F., 74, 163n.27
West Rock, Conn., 13
Wheeler, Lt. George, 124
Whistler, James McNeill, 151
White Mountains, N.H., 20–21, 41, 86, 91, 93, 95, 100, 101, 148
Mount Washington, 85, 93
Nancy’s Bridge, 101, fig. 51
Tuckerman Ravine, 99. See also Crawford Notch; Mount Chocorua
Whitney, Josiah Dwight, 99, 158n.59
Wilkins, Thurman, 140
Willey, Benjamin, Incidents in White Mountain History, 93, fig. 46
Willey, Samuel, 41, 95
Willey Disaster, 41–45, 95
Winthrop, Theodore, 74–81
Yale College, 11, 18, 28, 78
Yellowstone region, ix, 6, 88, 123, 129–36, 139, 140, iv, fig. 71
Great Geyser Basin, 130, fig. 69
Lower Falls, Yellowstone River, 132
Zola, Émile-Edouard-Charles-Antoine, 150–51
zoology, 4, 8