Preferred Citation: Jacoby, Karl. Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c2001 2001. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt629020bd/


 


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  • Abenaki tribe, 20

  • Adams, Oscar, 136, [249n67]

  • Adirondackers, 17–23; access to re sources, 33, 50, 52, 67; arson by, 73, 76, 77; disregard of regulations, 48–49; divisions among, 72; exclusion from decision-making, [265n12]; farmers, 14, 21; feuds among, [213n32]; foresters, 36; on game laws, 58–66; homesteads of, 33, 66; illiteracy of, [205n9]; land use practices of, 47; mar riage with Indians, 21; non market ide ology of, 53–54; occupations of, 21, 27–28; opposition to private parks, 41–46, 47, 67; opposition to state control, [227n69]; protection of deer, 60, [223n31]; relations with Forest Commission, 19, 57–58; right to sub sistence, 52–53, 64; support for con servation, 47; surveillance of foresters, 37–38; use of natural resources, 50; view of timber cutting, 51–54, 65; vi olation of forest code, 66, 76–78; vio lation of game laws, 63–64, 72–73; wage labor by, 27–28, 67; women, 21, 27. See also Rural society

  • Adirondack Game and Fish Protective Association, 63

  • Adirondack Guides' Association (AGA), 68–71; and game laws, 70–71; on hounding, [225n56]; membership of, 69–70, [225n48]

  • Adirondack League Club (ALC), 39, 47, 136, [209n14]; court cases against, 42; guides of, 40–41, [218n28]; vandalism against, [218n31]

  • Adirondack News: on poaching, 62; ontimber industry, 56

  • Adirondack Park: acreage of, [215n1]; creation of, 16–17, 168, [209n14]; destruction of property markers, 32, [215n2]; environmental regulations in, 30, [224n43], fig. 7; fishing in, 17, 32, 59–60; hounding in, 17; land classification in, 26; local use of, 32; map of, 10; mapping of, 31–32; planning for, 48. See also New York Forest Preserve

  • Adirondacks: arson in, 2, 72–73, 76, [218n31]; beaver population of, 71; common rights ideology in, 23–24, [213n31]; community solidarity in, 37; conservation program in, 4, 6, 29, 38, 47, 82; crops of, 22–23, [212n29]; deerpopulation of, 26, 36–37; deforestation of, 14, 25; depopulation of, 18, [210n20]; dialect of, [224n39]; early settlers of, 20–21; economic life of, 21; in eighteenth century, 20; elk population of, 72, [226n64]; farmers of, 14, 21; feuds in, [213n32]; fire towers in,


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    77–78; under Forest Commission, 29–31; forest fires in, 72–76; huntingin, 23; local game regulations in, [224n43]; lodging in, 27; Marsh on, 13–14; moose population of, 26, 72; Native Americans of, 20–21, [233n35]; poaching in, 35, 36–37, 41, 43–46, 49, 58–66; population of, [210n18]; private property in, 39–47, 49, [219n43]; property rights in, 23–24, 57; protection of, 12; pulp mills of, 55, [221n18]; railroads in, [226n59]; resistance to conservation in, 2, 19; restocking attempts in, 72; role in watersupply, 16; squatting in, 33–34, 66–67, 151; subsistence agriculturein, 27; surveying of, [215n2]; timbergangs in, 55–57, 103; timber industryof, 25, 27, 55–56, [221n19]; timbertheft in, 49, 50–58, 64, 103, [221n22]; tourism in, 18, 19, 26–28, 65, 66; traplines of, 23, 32, [212n30], [213n31]; vacation homes in, 33–34; as wilderness, 11–12, 197, [265n10]; “woods bandits” of, [224n40]. See also Foresters; Guides; Poaching; Private parks; Sports hunters

  • Adventures in the Wilderness (Murray), 19

  • Africa: conservation in, 5, 183, [264n5]; poaching in, [245n31]

  • AGA. See Adirondack Guides' Association

  • Akaba, Allen, 153, 161

  • ALC. See Adirondack League Club

  • Algonquin tribe, 20

  • Altherr, Thomas, [222n23]

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, 168, [229n3]

  • American Forestry Association (AFA), 99, 166–67

  • American Forestry Congress, 17

  • American Naturalist, 12

  • Anderson, Benedict, [229n3]

  • Anderson, George S., 123; campaigns against poaching, 100–101, 124–25, 129–30, 146; on elk population, 119; on poaching, 108, 121, 129; scouts, use of, 111

  • Antelope, 104, 116; confinement of, 141, 142, 143

  • Antimodernism, in conservation movement, 16, [209n12]

  • Archer, John, 145

  • Arizona: forest reserves of, 166; game laws of, 175, 184, [258n13]

  • Arizona Journal-Miner,157

  • Arizona Lumber and Timber Company, 170

  • Armstrong, Seymour, 54, 63

  • Arnold, David, 12

  • Arson: in Adirondacks, 2, 72–73, 76, [218n31], [226n67], [227nn69], [72], 73; at Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park, [227n72]; against paper companies, [221n19]

  • Assiniboine tribe, 134

  • Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Rail road, 187, 188

  • Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, 155

  • Australia, conservation in, 5

  • Backwoodsmen, Marsh on, 14. See also Frontiersmen; Rural society

  • Bailey, Charley, 150–51, [250n3]

  • Banditry: environmental, 2, [204n4]; social, [221n20]

  • “Bannock Trail” (Yellowstone), [229n7]

  • Bannock tribe: confinement to reservation, 87, [231n19]; conflict with settlers, 117–18, [258n13]; exclusionfrom resources, 139; fire, use of, 86, 89; as guides, [230n11]; hunting by, 88; hunting privileges of, 91; incursions into Yellowstone, 88, 89, 90, 117, [241n69]; migratory patterns of, 85; treaties with, 90

  • Barney, Charles, 54

  • Barron, Hal, xvi

  • Bass, W. W., 162

  • Basselin, Theodore B., 50, 57, [220n6]

  • Bean, C. C., 162

  • Beaver: of Adirondacks, 71; of Yellow stone, 119

  • Bechler River basin, 130

  • Beckman, W. C., 155

  • Beinart, William, [203n1]

  • Benevolent and Protective Order of Elk, 134

  • Bennett, Charlie, 46–47

  • Benson, Harry C., 142–43, [248n58]

  • BIA. See Bureau of Indian Affairs

  • Binkley, William, 135–36, 138–39, [248nn63], [65], fig. 14; arrest of, 140, [249n67]

  • Binkley-Purdy-Isabel gang, 135

  • Black bear, protection of, 70

  • Blackfeet tribe, 83; confinement to reservation, 87, [231n19]; migratory patterns of, 85

  • Black marketeers, of Adirondacks, 57

  • “Blacks” (poachers), 5

  • Black Tanks (watering place), 160; Ghost Dance at, 165; winter camp at, 161


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  • Boone and Crockett sports hunting club, 100, 136; on Indians' hunting, 91; role in Yellowstone, 82, 126, [244n15]

  • Boonville (N.Y.) Herald,61

  • Bowers, Edward, 172

  • Bozeman, Montana, 95

  • Bradley, Henry, 53

  • Brain worm, 26, 72

  • Brandon, New York, 43, 44

  • A Brief History of Forestry (Fernow), 17

  • British Army, role in conservation, 100

  • Brown, Shirley, 143

  • Brown's Tract Guides' Association (BTGA), 70, 71–72; founding of, [226n59]; on hounding, [225n56]

  • Bruncken, Ernest, 198

  • Buffalo: hunting of, 89; poaching of, 92, 123, 126, 131–32, fig. 15; “tame,”142

  • Buntline, Ned, [213n32]

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA): control of travel, 156, 177, 178; and Havasupai, 162–63, 176; petitions to, 150–51; and Yellowstone incursions, 90

  • Burgess, Felix, 123–24, fig. 9

  • Burke, John H., 51, 52

  • Burnham, John B., 34

  • Burns, Edward, 40

  • Burro, Billy, 183

  • Burros, feral, [254n35]

  • California, forest reserves of, 166

  • Cameron brothers (Ralph and John), 155

  • Cameron trail, [252n17]

  • Cañon Copper Company, 170

  • Capitalism: conservationists' view of, 169; and environmental destruction, [219n3]; view of nature under, 49

  • Captain Swing riots, 5, [206n14]

  • Carpenter, Frank, 81–82, 83, 85, 91, [228n2]

  • Cascade Forest Reserve, 176

  • Causation, structural models of, [243n6]

  • Changes in the Land (Cronon), 49

  • Cheney, John, 59, [222n29]

  • Cheyenne tribe, 134

  • Chickapanyegi (Havasupai), 184, [261n41], fig. 17

  • Chippewa tribe, 151

  • Chittenden, Hiram, 83

  • Church, Frederic, 12

  • Cinnabar, Montana, 105, 112

  • Class consciousness, in AGA, 69, [225n51]

  • Clements, Frederic, [208n9]

  • Cleveland, Grover, 125

  • Climax community model, 15, [208n9]

  • Coates, Peter, [203n1]

  • Coconino Forest, 153, 164; firewood in, 183; Havasupai in, 175; subsistence activities in, 186

  • Cole, Thomas, 12

  • Colonialism, Spanish, 154

  • Colvin, Verplanck, 31, 67, [265n10]; in AGA, 69

  • Commissioner of Indian Affairs, on hunting, 91, 117

  • Common rights ideology, 169, 194, 196–97; in Adirondacks, 23–24, [213n31]; in United States, [213n31]

  • Conger, Patrick, 101–4

  • Conklin, Henry, 23, 64

  • Conservation: in Adirondacks, 4, 6, 29, 38, 47, 82; in Africa, 5, 183, [264n5]; antimodern impulses in, 16, [209n12]; chronology of, 199–202, [207n19]; corporations and, 169, [256n55]; degradation discourse of, 63, 71, 166, 198, [208n10]; effect on moral development, [256n54]; effect on Native Americans, 4, 7, 151, [250n2]; effect on rural society, 198; elite discourse on, 3; etymology of, 197, [265n11]; folklore surrounding, [205n10]; Havasupai's opposition to, 185; in India, 5, 100, [206n17]; memory formation and, 193; militarization of, 100, 172–73, [235n5]; myths of, 193, [264n1]; New Englanders in, [204n2]; rise of, 7; social issues in, xvi, 5–6, 198; socio-political relationships in, 38; vision of the past, 193; at Yellowstone, 83

  • Conservationists: alliance with guides, 71; documents of, 4; Marsh's influence on, [208n10]; view of capitalism, 169; view of fire, 86; view of frontiersmen, 168–69; view of poachers, xvi; view of rural society, 198, [220n4]; on Yellowstone, 91, 96, 117

  • Corporations: and conservation, 169, [256n55]; in Grand Canyon, 170

  • Courtenay, Al, 130, 133

  • Courtenay, James, 130, 133

  • Cowan, Mrs. George, [230n12]

  • Coyote (myth), 152, 153, [251n6]

  • Crawford, “Horse Thief Scotty,”116

  • Crèvcoeur, J. Hector St. John de, [233n35]

  • Cronon, William, 49, [219n3], [230n14]

  • Crook, General, 160

  • Crook, Jim, 188

  • Crow tribe, 83, 84; confinement to reservation, 87, [231n19]; incursions into Yellowstone, 88, 89, 117; migratory patterns of, 85; shortage of rations, Crow tribe,


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    [232n21]; treaties with, 90; fire, use of, 86

  • Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 157, [251n6]

  • Daly, Jack, 46–47

  • Daniel, Edwin, 133

  • Davis, John, 157

  • Davis, Nathan, 56

  • Dean, Forest of, [206n14]

  • Deer, [222n29]; in Adirondacks, 26, 36–37, 58–66, 70, [223n31], fig. 3; in Grand Canyon, 181–82, 183–84; “jacking” of, 65, 66; in Yellowstone, 104

  • Deforestation, effect on water supply, 16, 165–66

  • D'Elia, Anthony, [227n69]

  • Deutsch, Sarah, 87

  • Dexter, Orrando, 47; burning of estate, [227n72]; murder of, 41, 45, 70

  • Doane, Gustavus, 84, 86

  • Does, hunting of, 66, 70

  • Dogs: hunting with, 17, 65, 66, [225n56]; shooting of, 24, 108, [213n34]

  • Donaldson, William, 170

  • Dorman, Robert L., [208n8]

  • Ducey, Patrick, 43

  • Duke, John, 160–61

  • Dunham, William, 52, 53

  • Dunning, Alvah, 59; arrest of, [222n28]; feud with Ned Buntline, [213n32]

  • Durant, William West, 45, 46

  • Duret, Joseph, 102, 103Dust Bowl (Worster), 49

  • Ecology: moral, 3; plant, 186; political, [205n8]; of Yellowstone, 84, 118–19, [242n72]

  • Edge effect, 25–26

  • Elk, of Adirondacks, 72, [226n64]

  • Elk, of Yellowstone, 104, 116, 119; domesticated, 131; penning of, 144–45; poaching of, 93, 131, 133, 137, [247n56]; shipments from park, 144; stabbing of, 141, 143–46, [250n79]

  • Elk teeth, poaching of, 133–36, 139, 140, 141, [247nn46], [48], [248n65]

  • El Tovar (hotel), 187

  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 12

  • Environment: authoritarian stance to ward, 198; degradation of, in Europe, 13, 14; government management of, 16; impact of livestock on, 180. See also Laws, environmental; Regulations, environmental

  • Environmental banditry, 2, [204n4]

  • Environmental history: development of, [204n4]; and social history, xvi

  • Eugenics movement, 12

  • Europe: environmental degradation of, 13, 14; forestry in, 4–5, 14, [206nn12], [13]

  • Ewing, Henry P., 177, 178

  • Fallow fires, 76–77, [228n75]

  • “Farewell Song,”191

  • Fenton (forest ranger), 179

  • Fernow, Bernard, 4, [256n54]; and Adirondack Park, 17, [209n14], [210n17]; A Brief History of Forestry,17; on European forestry, 5, [206n13]; and fire code, 76; Marsh's influence on, [208n10]

  • “Fiddle butts,”54–55, 104

  • Fire: conservationists' view of, 86, 168; “fallow,”76–77, [228n75]; Native Americans' use of, 86–87, 88, 89, 118, 166, [231nn16]–17, [233n35], [255n49]; role in Yellowstone ecology, 118–19, [242n72]. See also Forest fires

  • Firearm use: by Havasupai, 157; in Yellowstone, 108

  • Fire-fighting, wages for, [227n73]

  • Fire towers, in Adirondacks, 77–78, fig. 8

  • Firewood: in Adirondacks, 52–53, 54, 56, 57, 64, 66; in Havasu Canyon, 183; usufruct rights to, 196; in Yellowstone, 102. See also Timber theft

  • Fisher, Charles, 30

  • Fisheries, environmental history of, [220n5]

  • “Fisherman's problem,”[220n5]

  • Fishing, in Adirondacks, 17, 32; with nets, 59–60

  • Flagstaff Lumber and Manufacturing Company, 170

  • Foraging, 17; as trespassing, 2

  • Forest and Stream, 100; and administration of Yellowstone, 117, [244n15]; on foresters, 35, 36, 38; on forest fires, 76; on guides, 67, 69; on Indian incursions, 88, 89; on private parks, 39, 45; on rural society, 20; on sports hunting, 58; on squatters, 34; on Yellowstone poaching, 92, 93, 124, 127

  • Forester, Frank, 58, [208n11]

  • Foresters, of Adirondacks, 30, 34–39, 57, 198; corruption among, 38, [217n23]; discretion of, 36–37; hostility toward, 19, 37–38; local people as, 36; numbers of, [218n26]; and sports hunters, 62


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  • Forest fires: in Adirondacks, 72–76; conservationists' discourse on, 168; in India, [231n17]; in Yellowstone, 118–19, [241n72]. See also Fire

  • Forest Management Act (1897), 174

  • Forest rangers: conflict with Havasupai, 175; ex-soldiers as, [235n60]; of Grand Canyon, 174–75; surveillance of Havasupai, 182

  • Forest Reserve Act (1891), 17, 165, 178, [210n17]

  • Forest reserves: of California, 166; effecton Native Americans, 176; forestrangers on, 174; Hispanos' land in, [258n10]; homesteads on, 173–74; influence of Adirondacks on, [209n16]; livestock in, [257n1]; maps of, 176; military control of, 172–73, [257n7]; of New Mexico, 166; posting of, 171, [257n2]. See also National parks

  • Forestry: European, 4–5, 14, [206nn12], [13]; in Grand Canyon, 170; rural attitudes toward, 193; scientific, 4–5; water protection and, 166, [255n48]

  • Forestry Quarterly, on game laws, 63

  • Forests, federal protection of, 165–66, 168. See also Forest reserves

  • Fort Bridger, treaty of, [231n19]

  • Fort Hall Reservation, 88

  • Fort Laramie, treaty of, 90, [231n19]

  • Fort Yellowstone, 98, 99–120; confinement of poachers at, 125. See also Scouts; Soldiers

  • Fox, Stephen, [205n7]

  • Fox, William, 67–68

  • Franklin County, New York, [224n43]

  • Fred Harvey Company, 187

  • Frontier, ideology of, 92

  • Frontiersmen: conservationists' view of, 168–69; poaching by, 121–22; rightto subsistence, 122

  • Fuller, Andrew, [208n10]

  • Gaddis, John F., 163, 173

  • Galton, Francis, 12

  • Game hunting: civic responsibility for, 132; by Native Americans, 88–90; state intervention in, 197; for subsistence, 103; by Yellowstone locals, 122, [243n5]. See also Hunting; Sports hunters

  • Gamekeepers, English, [216n14]

  • Game laws: of Montana, 116; Native Americans' response to, [251n3]; as un-American, 64, [223n38]; violation of, 2. See also Laws, environmental

  • Game laws, of Adirondacks, 58–66; role of AGA in, 70–71; violation by Adirondackers, 63–64, 72–73; violation by sports hunters, 62–63

  • Game wardens: role in rural society, [216n14]; unpopularity of, [217n23]; of Yellowstone, 94. See also Foresters; Scouts

  • Garces, Francisco, [252n13]

  • Garden and Forest: on frontiersmen, 168–69; on poachers, [242n1], [243n11]; on use of fire, 172

  • Gardiner, Montana, 95–96; and elk stabbing incident, 144, 145; populationof, 96; timber use in, 101, 102, 103–4

  • Garmon, Samuel, 33

  • Gassert, S. C., 102–3

  • General Land Office (Interior Department), 171–72, 176, [258n8]; grazing policies of, 179; management of, 174; travel regulations of, 173, 177, 184

  • German Royal Forest Academy, [206n13]

  • Germany, poaching in, 5, [206n15]

  • Geysers, 84; Indians' use of, 85

  • Ghost Dance movement, 165, [255nn45], [46]

  • Gibson, G. J., fig. 12

  • Gila River Forest Reserve, 176

  • Golding, John, 45–46

  • Gorman, Samuel, 57

  • Grand Cañon Forest Reserve, 166; creation of, 150, 165, 173, [255n47]; effecton Havasupai, 171, 174, 175–76, 184–85; federal game reserve in, 181; map of, 148; Native Americans in, 178; poaching in, [262n43]; posting of, 171

  • Grand Canyon National Park: construction projects in, 187, 188; creation of, 150, 181; effect on Havasupai, 187; forest rangers of, 174–75; under General Land Office, 176; livestock in, 170; natural resources of, 169–70;timber industry in, 170; tourism in, 155, 187, 188, [252n16]

  • Grand Canyon Village, [262n50]; Havasupai at, 189–90, [263n59]; sewage system of, [263n53]

  • Grant, H. Dwight, 23–24

  • Gray, Ira, 36, [217n19]

  • Grazing: state intervention in, 197; in Yellow stone, 104–6, 197

  • Great Britain: animal maiming in, 145; army, 100; colonial conservation regimes of, 183; poachers of, 5, 130, 137, [244n23], [245n31]; state controlof forests, [206n14]


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  • “Grenadiers” (timber gang), 56, 103

  • Grinnell, George Bird, 82, 91; and Howell case, 124, 125

  • Guha, Ramachandra, 73

  • Guides: Havasupai as, 162, [261n37]; Indians as, 84; of Swiss Alps, [225n49]

  • Guides, Adirondack, 40–41, 65, fig. 2; alliances with conservationists, 71; associations of, 67–72; communitybased, 67–68, 197; New York Forest Commission on, 68; wage disputes of, [218n28]

  • Halper, Louise, [209n12]

  • Hamilton County, New York, 18; birthplace of residents, 22; occupations in, 21; poachers in, 35; population of, [210n18]; violation of game laws in, 63

  • Hance, John, 155

  • Hance trail, 155, [252n17]

  • Hanna, Isaac B., 177

  • Hanna, Mark: on clothing, [252n19]; on diet, [254n38]; on plant ecology, 186; on trading, 153, 157; on wage labor, 164, 188, [263n53]

  • Hardwoods, logging of, 25, 55–56

  • Harms, Robert, [264n5]

  • Harris, Moses, 97, 106; firefighting by, 118

  • Harrison, Benjamin, 165, 166

  • Havasu Canyon, 152; agriculture in, 153, 159, 163; firewood from, 183; reservation in, 158–159, 163–64, [253nn27], [28], [254n39]

  • Havasu Creek, flooding of, 154, 163

  • Havasupai tribe, 149, figs. 16, 17, 18, 20; access to resources, 158–60; adaptation to change, 155–56; agents of, 177, 179; agriculture of, 152, 153, 154, 159, 163, 189, [263n57]; and Bureau of Indian Affairs, 162–63, 176; cabins of, figs. 19, 21; in cash economy, 158; ceremonial songs of, 186, [262n48]; coming-of-age rituals of, 185–86, [262nn46], [48]; conflict with ranchers, 160–62; conflict with rangers, 175; cultural identity of, 185–87; deer hunting by, 181–82, 183–84; dietary habits of, 184; dress of, 155–56, [252n19]; effect of forest reserve on, 171, 174, 175–79, 184–85; effect of Grand Canyon National Park on, 187; “Farewell Song” of, 191; and Forest Service, 170, 179; game shamans of, 186; gathering by, 153, 189; in Ghost Dance movement, 165, [255nn45], [46]; at Grand Canyon Village, 189–90; grazing areas of, 179–81; as guides, 162, [261n37]; hunting grounds of, 150, 153, 160, 162, 164, [258n13]; hunting techniques of, 182, [261n37]; knowledge of plants, 186; language of, [251n8]; livestock cultivation by, 163, 164, 180–81, [260n29]; loss of territory, 155; meat supply of, 162, 183–84, [254n38], [261n40]; modes of production, 181, 191; nostalgia for past, 191; off-reservation activities of, 177–79; poaching of mountain sheep, [261n41]; ponies of, 165, [252n13]; population size, 155, 156; of pre-reservation era, 152; relations with neighbors, [251n8]; reservation of, 158–60, 163–64, [253nn27], [28], [254n39]; resistance by, 152, 185; sea sonal cycle of, 154, 164, 173, 177, 178, 183, 189, [252n11]; subsistence practices of, 189, 190, [263n56]; surveillance by rangers, 182; trade networks of, 152–153, 154, 156–57, 162; trade with whites, 157–58; traditions of redistribution, 181, [260n31]; travel restrictions on, 184–85; manufactured goods, use of, 157; natural resources, use of, 194; wage labor by, 164, 180, 187–91, [254n43]; water rights of, 153, 155, 160–61, 164; winter camps of, 161, 182, 183; wood supply of, 183

  • Hayes, Rutherford B., 158

  • Hays, Samuel, [256n55]

  • Headley, Joel, 10, 12, 22; on rural life, 19; on sportsmen, 61

  • Helms, William, 28

  • Henry's Lake, Idaho: population of, [245n28]

  • Henry's Lake gang (poachers), 129–30, 139, 194; buffalo poaching by, 132, 142; resentment of, 132–33; sale of meat by, 131

  • Herbert, William Henry, 12

  • Herb gathering, in Adirondacks, 23

  • Herkimer County, New York, 23; black marketeers of, 57; game regulations of, [224n43]; public land in, 30–31; shingle-making in, [221n16]

  • Hermann, W. P., 175, 176

  • Hidden transcripts, 4, [205n11]

  • Hillbillies, 20, [211n24]

  • Hispanos, loss of collective lands, [258n10]

  • Hobsbawm, Eric, [204n4], [221n20]

  • Hofer, Thomas, 129

  • Hoffman, Charles, 59

  • Homestead ethic, [216n9]; in Adirondacks, 33


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  • Homesteads: of Adirondackers, 33, 66; on forest reserves, 173–74

  • Hopi tribe: effect of Spanish on, 154; trade with Havasupai, 152, 153, 156–57, 162

  • Hornaday, William, 96, 122

  • Hot springs, 84

  • Hough, Emerson, 124

  • Hough, Franklin: and Adirondack Park, 17, 196, [209n14]; on Prussian forestry, [206n13]; on rural society, 168, 169

  • Hounding: in Adirondack Park, 17, 65, 66; guide associations on, [225n56]

  • Howell, Ed, 124, 126, 137, figs. 10–11; reward of, 129, [245n26]; self-defense of, 127–28; tracking skills of, 129

  • Hunkins, John, 62

  • Hunter, Ed, [238n34]

  • Hunting: by Bannock tribe, 88, 91; in British culture, [222nn23], [25]; of buffalo, 89; Commissioner of Indian Affairs on, 91, 117; of does, 66, 70; in Grand Canyon, 181–82, 183–84; by Native Americans, 88–90, 91, 150, [241n69]; republican ideology of, 64, 137; violent disagreements over, [213n34]. See also Game hunting; Poaching; Sports hunters

  • Hunting, in Adirondacks, 23, 32; for market, 65–66; subsistence, 59–60, 64, [223n30]

  • Hunting grounds: fights over, [212n27]; of Havasupai, 150, 153, 160, 162, 164, [258n13]

  • Huron tribe, 20, [211n25]

  • Hutchins, Arvin, 65

  • Iliff, Flora Gregg, 177

  • Illiteracy, 3; of Adirondackers, [205n9]

  • Immigrants, effect of conservation on, [204n2]

  • India: conservation in, 5, 100, [206n17]; forest fires in, [231n17]

  • Indian agents: of Havasupai, 177, 179; refusal to prosecute, [259n17]

  • Indian fighting, 111; tactics of, [239n43]

  • Indian Lake (Adirondacks), 35

  • Indian Pasture (Grand Canyon), 179, 180

  • Indians: of Adirondacks, 20–21, [233n35]; belief systems of, 149; in census, [212n28]; confinement on reservations, 87–88; conflict with settlers, 117–18; deprivation of resources, 149, 151; dispossession of, 85, 151, [251n4]; effect of conservation on, 4, 7, 151, [250n2]; effect of forest reserves on, 176; effect of wage labor on, [263n57]; exclusion from resources, 139, 140; game hunting by, 88–90; in Grand Cañon Forest Reserve, 178; of Grand Canyon region, 7; as guides, 84; hunting privileges of, 88, 91, 150, [241n69]; impact of national parks on, [204n2]; impact of wilderness concept on, [231n19]; incursions into Yellowstone, 81–82, 87–92, 117, [233n35]; knowledge of environmental laws, [233n40]; migratory patterns of, 85, 87; names of, [250n1]; petitions to Indian Affairs, 150–51; resistance by, 150; as scouts, 111, 182; in tourist literature, 84–85, [230n12]; travel restrictions on, 184, [232n31]; treaties with, 90, 151, [231n19]; use of fire, 86–87, 88, 89, 118, 166, [231nn16], [17], [233n35], [255n49]; use of horses, 86; as wards of state, 151; of Yellowstone Plateau, 83–92, [230nn9], [11], 12

  • Iroquois tribe, 20, [211n25]

  • Isabel (poacher), [248n58]

  • Jacking (hunting), 65, 66, fig. 3

  • Jackson Hole, Wyoming: control of resources at, 139–40; poachers at, 135, 138–39; posses from, 117; tusking in, [247n48]

  • James, George Wharton, 156–57, [261n41]

  • Jim, Big (Havasupai), 153, 160, 180, [252n10], [259n16]

  • Jim, Captain (Havasupai), 149, 150, 152; name of, [250n1]; on venison, 184

  • Johnson, Andrew, [231n19]

  • Johnson, Ernest H., 64

  • Johnson, Robert Underwood, 172, 197

  • Joseph (Nez Perce chief), 81

  • Joseph, Gilbert, [204n4]

  • Judd, Richard, [204n2]

  • Kaibab Plateau, deer population of, 184

  • Keene Valley (New York), 61–62

  • Kenwell, Isaac, 35, 63

  • Kinsman, Emery, 36

  • Kirby, Jack Temple, [227n73]

  • Klickitat tribe, 176

  • Knack, Martha, [263n56]

  • Knapp, Sergeant, 109

  • Knights of Labor, 6

  • Labor market, rural society in, 67. See also Wage labor

  • Lac du Flambeau Indians, 150


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  • Lacey Act (1900), 140

  • Lake Pleasant (New York), 18

  • Lakota tribe, 83

  • Lamora, Oliver, 42–45, 62, 195; penalty for poaching, [219n37]; pension of, [218n35]

  • Landscape: as natural space, 197; “of enclaves,”87, [231n20]; state management of, 2. See also Wilderness ideology

  • Landscape painting, 12

  • Larking, C. H., 63 Lawlessness: in Adirondacks, 48–50; of elites, 62–63; in environmental history, 2; in Yellowstone, 97, 99, 106.See also Arson; Poaching; Timber theft

  • Lawrence, Verba, [238n31]

  • Laws, environmental: local transgressions of, [204n3]; Native Americans' knowledge of, [233n40]; of New York, 17; resistance to, 195. See also Game laws; Regulations, environmental

  • Lemhi Reservation (Idaho), 90, 91, [231n19]

  • Leston, Charles, 77

  • Lindsley, Elmer, 109

  • Litchfield, Edward, 44

  • Littlefield, Alice, [263n56]

  • Livestock: effect on food plants, 180, [260n30]; environmental impact of, 180; in forest reserves, [257n1]; in Grand Canyon, 170; grazing in Yellowstone, 104–6, 197, [236n22]; Havasupai's use of, 163, 164, 180–81, [259n29]; poaching of, [254n42], [260n29]

  • Livingston, Montana, 95

  • Livingston Enterprise, 100; on poaching, 116, 126, 127, 138; on timber use, 103

  • Livingston Post, 100; on bribery, 110; onpoaching, 126

  • Lodgepole pine, 104; early treatment of, [236n19]; reproductive cycle of, 119

  • Ludlow, William, 97

  • Lundy, J. P., 19–20

  • Lynch, Daniel, 77

  • Madison River basin, 130

  • Maine, timber industry of, [213n35]

  • Mammoth Hot Springs, 102; army barracks at, 121

  • Manakaja (Havasupai chief), [252n28]

  • Man and Nature (Marsh), 13–15, 196, 198

  • Manning, Roger B., [244n23]

  • Map of the Adirondack Forest and Adjoining Territory (Forest Commission), 32

  • Marsh, George Perkins, 165, [255n48]; and the Adirondacks, 15, [208n11]; contribution to land management, [207n4]; influence on conservationists, [208n10]; Man and Nature,13–15, 196, 198; Whig politics of, [208n8]

  • Marx, Karl, 5

  • Masai warriors, slaughter of game animals, [249n78]

  • Masculinity: and poaching, 128–29, 146, [244n23]; traditional models of, 16, [225n50]

  • McBride, Jim, 115

  • McCann, James C., [208n10]

  • McDonald, Harry, 137

  • McMartin, Barbara, [214n38]

  • McMinn, Silas, 130

  • McNeil, Fred, 44, [219n39]

  • Medicinal herbs, of Adirondacks, 21, 23

  • Mediterranean basin, deforestation of, 13

  • Melville, Harry, 62

  • Merrill, David, 59–60

  • Meveigh, William, 77

  • Miller, J. Herbert, 69, 71

  • Miner, Thomas, 116

  • Miners: incursions into Havasu Canyon, 159; poaching by, [247n56]; supplements to income, [248n57]

  • Minnesota, hunting rights in, [241n69]

  • Modernism, and antimodernism, 16, [209n12]

  • Mohave tribe, 152

  • Moody, Harvey, 20, [211n26]

  • Moore, Carl, 184

  • Moose: in Adirondacks, 26; parasites of, 26, 72, [214n39]; restocking of, 72

  • Moral ecology, 3

  • Moran, Thomas, 12, [229n3]

  • Morgan, J. Pierpont, 45; violation ofgame laws, 62

  • Morrison, James, 113

  • Muhn, James, [258n8]

  • Muir, John, 99, 120

  • Mule deer, 149

  • Mumford, Louis, 15

  • Murray, William, Adventures in the Wilderness,19

  • Nash, Roderick, 2–3, [204n6]; Wilderness and the American Mind,49

  • National Farmers' Alliance, 6


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  • National forests, 167; creation of, 166; in eastern United States, [255n48]; military administration of, 100; squatting in, 2; timber theft in, 2

  • National parks: impact on Native Americans, [204n2]; of South Africa, [203n1]. See also Forest reserves

  • National Park Service, [235n60]; building efforts of, [262n50]

  • Native Americans. See Indians

  • Natural history, rise of, 12

  • Natural resources: Adirondackers' use of, 50; community control over, 194–95;cultural attitudes toward, 1; Havasupai's use of, 194; legal rights to, 195; noncapitalistic management of, [220n5]; regulation of, 67; settlement of disputes over, [264n3]; state interventionin, 197–98; usufruct rights to, 196

  • Nature: alienation from, 73; alternative visions of, 3; effect of capitalism on, 49; myths concerning, 195–97; nineteenth-century views on, 12; protection from rural society, 198; rural attitudes toward, 4, 49–50, 193–96; rural knowledge of, [247n54]; state management of, 122, 196. See also Wilderness

  • Nature, 12

  • Navajo (Havasupai chief), 156, 157, [252n20]; and creation of reservation, 158, 159, [253n27]; in Ghost Dancemovement, 165, [255nn45], [46]; andhunting privileges, 160

  • Navajo tribe: effect of Spanish on, 154; in Gila River Forest Reserve, 176; poaching by, [261n43]; relocation of, 155; trade with Havasupai, 152, 156–157

  • Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park (Adirondacks), 40, 47; arson on, [227n72]; creation of, [218n26]

  • Newcomb, Tom, [240n49]

  • New Englanders, in conservation movement, [204n2]

  • New Mexico, forest reserves of, 166

  • New York: amendment to constitution, 197, [265n10]; Commissioners of State Parks, 18; environmental legislation of, 16–17; Euro-American settlement of, [212n28]; fire control lawsof, 76; forest police of, 17; Forest Reserve Act, 17; game laws of, 58, 60–61

  • New York Board of Trade, 16

  • New York Chamber of Commerce, 16

  • New York Conservation Commission, [215n1]

  • New York Fisheries, Game, and Forest Commission, [215n1]

  • New York Forest Commission, 18; andbeaver population, 71; enforcement problems of, 50–51; foresters of, 34–39, 40, 57, 62, 66; on forest fires, 72; fraud charges against, 57; onguides, 68; and land titles, 25; management of Adirondacks, 29–31;members of, fig. 5; name change of, [215n1]; relations with Adirondackers, 19, 57–58; on squatters, 34, 73; threats to members, 42; on timbercutting, 25, 50–51, 53, 55

  • New York Forest Preserve: acreage of, 46; additions to, 46–47; boundariesof, 30–33; legislation for, 17, [209n13]; local opinion on, 18; localuse of, 66; public passage through, 41; state-owned lands in, [219n42]; trespasses in, [220n11]. See also Adirondack Park

  • New York state legislature: Adirondack legislation of, 16–17; Adirondack studies of, 15–16, 48; repurchase program of, 46–47

  • New York Times: on private parks, 42; on timber theft, 55

  • Nez Perce Indians: incursions into Yellowstone, 81–82, 83, 85, 91; murderof tourists, [228n2]

  • Norris, Philetus, 90, 93, 94

  • Northrop, A. Judd, 12

  • Novak, William, 195

  • Nunu people (Africa), [264n5]

  • Obsidian, 83, [229n8]

  • “Old Golden” (deer), 60 Oliver, A. G., [254n43] Out-migration, [210n20]

  • Page, Albert, 65–66

  • Paiute tribe, 152

  • Palfrey, Lt. Carl, 158

  • Patraw, P. P., 190

  • Payson, Lewis E., 97

  • Peasants, displacement of, 73

  • Penobscot tribe, 20

  • Petty, Clarence, 37

  • Pierce, Seth, 28

  • Pinchot, Gifford, 4, 170; and the Adirondacks, 17, 27, [209n14]; on development, 169

  • Pinkerton Detective Agency, [239n46]


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  • Piñon nuts, gathering of, 181

  • Pitcher, John, 109, 110

  • Poachers, in Great Britain, 5, 130, 137, [244n23], [245n31]

  • Poachers, in Yellowstone, [242n1], [243n11], figs. 10–14; arrest of, [241n62], [248n58]; cabins of, fig. 9; confiscation of goods from, 125; knowledge of Park, 121; prosecutionof, 133; retaliation by, 132–33; asscouts, [238n35]; tactics of, 135, [247n48]; theft of army supplies, [239n40]; trials of, 128

  • Poaching, 7, [204n2]; in Africa, [245n31]; in Germany, 5, [206n15]; in history of conservation, xv–xvi; of livestock, [254n42], [260n29]; and masculinity, 128–29, 146, [244n23]; in national forests, 2; by Navajo, [261n43]; as regressive phenomena, 122; rural attitudes toward, 146, 198; as substitute for war, [244n23]; versus wage labor, 136–38, [248n61]. See also Hunting

  • Poaching, in Adirondacks, 35, 36–37, 58–66, [222n28]; by guides, 41; New York Forest Commission on, 49; on private parks, 43–46. See also Adirondackers

  • Poaching, in Yellowstone, 92–93, 108–17; community resistance to, 138–40, [248n65]; community standards on, 146, 194; defense of, 122–23; by families, 130; by groups, 123, 129–30; informants on, 131–33, [246n38]; local opposition to, 126, 131–32; for market, 139; modes of, 121–46; from neighboring towns, 96; penalties for, 124–25; popular support for, 121–22; by scouts, [240n49]; scouts' surveillance of, 113–14; skills needed for, 127–29; soldiers' role in, 110; subsistence, 137–38; techniques of, 130–31; Theodore Roosevelt on, 129; by working class, 136–38. See also Henry's Lake gang

  • Poaching fraternities, [245n31]

  • Pond, J. Warren, 56, [221n19], [222n34]

  • Populists, 6

  • Powell, John Wesley, 86–87, 166, [231n17]

  • Preservationists, [209n12]

  • Private parks, of Adirondacks, 39, 49, 62, 67; boundaries of, 40, fig. 6; guards on, 42; lawsuits against, 42–44; opposition to, 41–46, 47; poaching on, 43–46; vandalism on, 42

  • Professionalism, in environmental management, 16

  • Progressive Era, reformers of, 169

  • Prussia: forest crime in, 5; forestry academies of, 4, [206n13]

  • Public lands: in Herkimer County, 30–31; local customs surrounding, [236n10]; of United States, 14

  • Pueblo Indians, effect of Spanish on, 154

  • Pulp mills, of Adirondacks, 55, [221n18]

  • Purdy (poacher), 140, [249n67]

  • Putesoy, Mack, 163, 164

  • Racehorse (Bannock chief), 118, 195, [241n69]

  • Railroads: in Adirondacks, 55, [226n59]; Atlantic and Pacific, 155; northern Pacific, 95; western, 187, 188

  • Rain Tank (watering place), 161

  • Ranchers: conflict with Havasupai, 160–62; theft of ponies, 165

  • Randall, Richard, 102

  • Randolph, E., 161

  • Rangers. See Forest rangers

  • Raquette Lake, 45; squatters at, 34

  • Rawson, Edward, [223n31]

  • Recreation, 100

  • Redwood, John, 62

  • Reeder, George, 95

  • Regulations, environmental, 2; of Adirondacks, 30, [224n43], fig. 7; enforcement of, xvi; rural resistance to, 2; of Yellowstone, 93–95. See also Laws, environmental

  • Reiger, John, [222n23]

  • Remington, Frederic, 110, 115, 117

  • Republicanism: ideology of hunting in, 64, 137, [223n38]; ideology of self-sufficiency in, 64

  • Reservations: confinement on, 87–88; establishment of, 151; of Havasupai, 158–60, 163–64, [253nn27], [28], [254n39]; travel away from, 177

  • Revenge: as motive for arson, 73, 77; asmotive for slaughter, 145, [250n79]

  • Rock, Dick, 130, 131–32; death of, 133

  • Rockefeller, William: Adirondack park of, 39, 42, 45, 62, [218nn27], [34]; arson against, [227n72]

  • Rockefeller v. Lamora,43–45, 47

  • Rockinger brothers (George and Henry), 125

  • Rocky Mountain National Park, [242n75]

  • Romey, Ed, 109–10, 112, [238n35]

  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 4; and the Adirondacks, 17, 27; on poaching, 129; and Yellowstone, 82, 91


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  • Rural society: attitudes toward nature, 4, 49–50, 193–96; attitudes toward poaching, 146; conservationists' view of, 198, [220n4]; dissent in, 6; and environmental movement, xvi–xvii, 71, 198; idealization of, 19; knowledge of nature, [247n54]; market orientation of, 67, [214n42]; of nineteenth century, [211n24]; oral traditions of, 3–4; outmigration by, [210n20]; privations of, 19; protection of nature from, 198; records of, 3–4; resistance to environmental regulation, 2–3; role of game wardens in, [216n14]; subsistence patterns of, 198; of Yellowstone, 92–93. See also Adirondackers

  • Sabattis, Mitchell, fig. 1

  • Saberwal, Vasant K., [208n10]

  • Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company, 170

  • Santa Clara Reserve (New York), 47

  • Sargent, Charles, 99–100

  • Schenk, Carl, 4

  • Scott, Charles B., 102

  • Scott, James, 29

  • Scouts, of Yellowstone, 111–12, 198, fig. 10; arrests by, 115–16; corruption among, 112–13, [240n49]; diaries of, 113, 114, 115; on poachers, 128–29; poachers as, [238n35]; surveillance of poachers, 113–14; tactics of, 114–15; undercover operations of, 111–12, [239n46]; violence against, 115; wages of, [240n50]. See also Soldiers

  • Seelye, Elizabeth, 20

  • Self-sufficiency: of Adirondackers, 53; republican ideology of, 64

  • Shaw, Robert, 51

  • Sheehy, Patrick, 60

  • Sheep, poaching of, [261n41]

  • Sheep ranches, 161, 162

  • Sheep Tank (watering place), 165

  • Sheldon, Charles, [261n37]

  • Shepherds: Mexican-American, 155; in Yellowstone, 140, 194

  • Sheridan, Philip, 86, 97

  • Shingles, [220n16], fig. 4; timber cutting for, 54, 55

  • Shoshone tribe, 84; confinement to reservation, 87, [231n19]; elk teeth, use of, 134; exclusion from resources, 140; fire, use of, 86; as guides, [230n11]; and hunting, 88, 91; incursions into Yellowstone, 88, 89, 90, 117, [241n69]; migratory patterns of, 85, 87; treaties with, 90

  • Simpson, William, 138

  • Sinyala (Havasupai), [261n37]

  • Sinyella (Havasupai), 185, [260n29]

  • Sivaramakrishnan, K., [231n17]

  • Skiing, by army patrols, 109

  • Skowronek, Stephen, 195

  • Smith, Apollos (“Paul”), 27

  • Smith, Bill, 37–38, 59, [212n30]

  • “Snowshoe cabins,”110, 111, 113, [239nn40], [41]

  • Social history, and environmental history, xvi, [203n1]

  • Society, power distribution in, xvi. See also Rural society

  • Softwoods: logging of, 25; theft of, 53

  • Soldiers, of Yellowstone, 108–11; antipoaching efforts of, 110–11, figs. 10, 11; corruption among, 109–10, [238n37]; Indian fighting by, 111; inexperience of, 109, [238n32]; poaching by, [238n34]. See also Scouts

  • South Africa, national parks of, [203n1]

  • Sparks, William A., 168

  • Spencer, Herbert, 12

  • Sperry, D. F., 55

  • Sports fishing, 60

  • Sports hunters, in Adirondacks, 26, 27, 58–59, 108–11; in AGA, 69–70; British antecedents of, [222n23]; ethics of, 58; laws favoring, 61–62; opposition to private parks, 45–46; private parks of, 39, 45; resentment of, 61–62; techniques of, [222n24]; violation of game laws, 62–63

  • Sports hunters, in Yellowstone, 89

  • Spruce gum, gathering of, 23, [212n30]

  • Squatters, 7, [216n11]; in Adirondacks, 33–34, 66–67, 151; on forest reserves, 174; in history of conservation, xv–xvi; in national forests, 2; New York Forest Commission on, 73; timber theft by, 168; in Yellowstone, [234n50]

  • “Squaw-men,”92, 122

  • State, decision-making power of, 6

  • State simplification: in Adirondacks, 29; ecological dangers of, [242n76]; in Yellowstone, 119, 142

  • “State Troops” (timber gang), 56, 103

  • St. Francis tribe, 20

  • St. Regis River, poaching in, 44

  • Strong, William E., 93

  • Stukley, Joseph, fig. 13

  • Subsistence: in Coconino Forest, 186; frontiersmen's rights to, 122; game hunting for, 103; in Havasupai practices, 189, 190, [263n56]; natural


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  • Subsistence (continued) resources for, 196; poaching for, 137–38; rural patterns of, 198; in timber use, 102–3

  • Subsistence, in Adirondacks: agricultural, 27; and hunting, 59–60, 64, [223n30]; as right, 52–53, 64

  • Supai, 189, 190

  • Swiss Alps, guides of, [225n49]

  • Sylvester, Nathaniel, 12

  • Taggart, [259n24]

  • Taxidermists, 130, 133

  • Taylor, Alan, [203n1]

  • Thomas, George, 42

  • Thompson, E. P., 3, 194

  • Thoreau, Henry David, 12

  • Thurston, Clarkson, 157

  • Tillotson, M. R., 190

  • Timber: state intervention in, 197; subsistence uses of, 102–3; of Yellowstone, [231n16]

  • Timber industry: in Grand Canyon, 170; of Maine, [213n35]

  • Timber industry, in Adirondacks: collusion with forestry officials in, 57, [221n21]; local opposition to, 56–57;resolutions against, [221n19]

  • Timber theft, 7; from federal lands, 168, 169; in history of conservation, xv–xvi; in national forests, 2; from Yellow stone, 101–4, [236n18]. See also Firewood

  • Timber theft, in Adirondacks, 49, 50–58, 64, 103; definition of, 51; large-scale, 55; revenue from, 54; in twentieth-century, [221n22]

  • Tom, Captain (Havasupai), 161

  • Tonkey tribe, 84

  • Tourism: in the Adirondacks, 18, 19, 26–28, 65, 66; eco-tourism, [210n21]; in Grand Canyon, 155, 187, 188, [252n16]; in Yellowstone, 81, 91, 108

  • Tourists: murder of by Indians, [228n2]; upper-class, 3

  • Transcendentalism, 12

  • Trapping: in Adirondacks, 23, 32, [212n30], [213n31]; in Yellowstone, 121, 122

  • Treaties: Fort Bridger, [231n19]; Fort Laramie, 90, [231n19]

  • Troike, Private, 123

  • Trophy market, 126

  • Trumbull, Walter, 84

  • Turner, Frederick Jackson, 168

  • Tusking, 133–36, 141, [247nn46], [48];

  • Binkley's, 139, 140, [248n65]

  • United States: acquisition of southwest territory, 154–55; common rights ideology in, [213n31]; forestry policies of, 5; land policy of, 83

  • United States Army: Corps of Engineers, 107; and internal security, [235n57]; jurisdiction over Yellowstone, 97, 98, 99–120; in modern state, [235n60]; and Yellowstone incursions, 90. See also Scouts; Soldiers

  • United States Congress: establishment of Yellowstone, 82–83; forest legislation of, 165–66

  • United States Division of Forestry, 17

  • United States Forest Service, 170, 179

  • United States Geological Survey, 84

  • United States Interior Department, 95, 98, 99, 100; poaching policy of, 126; timber policies of, 101. See also General Land Office

  • United States War Department, Yellowstone under, 97–98, 99–120

  • Usufruct, ideology of, 196

  • Ute tribe, 151

  • Vanderbilt, Alfred G., 45

  • Van Dyke, E. E., 125

  • Venison: Captain Jim on, 184; importance to Adirondack diet, [224n39]; sale of, 64–65

  • Violence, in protection of resources, 194, 195

  • Virginia City, Montana, 95

  • Wage labor: by Adirondackers, 27–28, 67; alternatives to, [248n61]; Americanviews on, [247n55]; effect on Native Americans, [263n57]; by Havasupai, 164, 180, 187–91, [254n43]; versuspoaching, 136–38, [248n61]

  • Wagner, R. A., [238n37]

  • Walapai tribe: clothing of, [252n19]; language of, [251n8]; poaching of livestock, [254n42]; trade with Havasupai, 152, 154, 156

  • Wall, M. J., 114, 115

  • Wa luthma (Supai Charley), [260n29]

  • Ward v. Racehorce,118

  • Warner, Charles Dudley, 99

  • “War of the Demoiselles,”5

  • Warren, Louis, [204n2]

  • Watahomigie (Havasupai), 184

  • Water supply: effect of deforestation on, 16, 165–66; of Havasupai, 153, 155, 160–61, 164; for New York, 16; Pinchot on, [257n55]; role of forestry in, 166, [255n48]


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  • Webb, William Seward, 40, 44, 45, [218n26]

  • Weber, Eugen, 73

  • West, American: conservation in, 4; risk-taking in, [244n23]

  • West, D. Clinton, 185, 188, [250n1]

  • White, Theodore, 68

  • “White Indians,”92–93, 138, [233n39]

  • White Mountain Apache agency, 176

  • Whites, “lawless,”92–93, 97

  • Whiting, A. F., [260n31], [262n46]

  • Whitman, Jay, 130, 133

  • Whitney, William C., 44, 70

  • Whittaker, George, 114, 115

  • Wickeups, 84

  • Wilderness and the American Mind (Nash), 49

  • Wilderness ideology, 197; of Adirondacks, 11–12, 197, [265n10]; aesthetic of, [209n12]; American, [231n19]; as cult, xv; effect on Native Americans, [231n19]. See also Nature

  • Williams, A. P., 36

  • Wind River Reservation, 88, 91, [231n19]

  • Winegar brothers (George and John), 130

  • Wingate, George, 91, [233n35]

  • Wonderland (newspaper), 112

  • Wonderland (nickname for Yellowstone), 81, [227n73]

  • Woodruff, Lieutenant Governor, 62

  • Woodward, J. H., 59

  • Working class: hierarchies of, [225n49]; poaching in Yellowstone, 136–38

  • Worster, Donald, 49

  • Wyoming territory: game laws of, 118; Yellowstone under, 95, 97, 98

  • Yakima tribe, 176

  • Yavapai tribe, 154

  • Yell, Louis, 40

  • Yellowstone National Park: beaver population of, 119; boundaries of, 106–7; conservation policy in, 6, 83, [236n11]; creation of, [229n4]; dogs in, 108; ecology of, 84, 118–19, [242n72]; enforcement of regulations in, 93–95; entrances to, 107; establishment of, 82–83, 87, [229n4]; fence cutting at, 141–42, 143–44; fencing of, 106, 142–44; firearm use in, 108; forest fires in, 118–19, [241n72]; game herds of, 142–43; game wardens of, 94; geothermal features of, 81, 82, 85; Indian incursions into, 81–82, 87–92, 117, [233n35]; Indian trails of, 83, 84, 107, [229n7]; Indians' use of, [230n9]; livestock grazing on, 104–6, 197, [236n22]; map of, 80; mapping of, 82, 84, 107; martial law in, 105–6; military administration of, 97, 98, 172; predator population of, 119; protective legislation for, 125; resistance to conservation in, 2; role in federal policy making, [229n6]; role of fire in, 118–19; rural society of, 92–93; scientific interest in, [229n3]; spies in, 111–12, [239n46]; squatters in, [234n50]; stagecoach robberies in, 140–41; superintendents of, 93–95, 143; symbolism of, [229n3]; territorial constables of, 97; timber of, [231n16]; timber theft from, 101–4, [236n18]; tourism in, 81, 91, 108; trapping at, 121, 122; travel permits for, 107, [237n27]; ungulate population of, 119; villages surrounding, 95–96, 101; winter patrolling of, 110–11; under Wyoming jurisdiction, 95, 97, 98. See also Elk; Poaching; Scouts; Soldiers

  • Yellowstone National Park Protection Act, 126, [244n15]

  • Yellowstone Park Timberland Reserve, 166

  • Yellowstone Plateau: Indian peoples of, 83–92, [230nn9], [11]–12; ranches of, 104; social order of, 112

  • Yellowstone River Valley, 95

  • Young, Eric Van, [243n6]

  • Young, H. J., 155

  • Young, Samuel M. B., 105–6, 108–9, 129; poaching policy of, 111–12, 143

  • Yuman language, [251n8]


 

Preferred Citation: Jacoby, Karl. Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c2001 2001. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt629020bd/