The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land Rhyd Wildermuth ISBN13: 9781572583382

ISBN13: 9781572583382

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Author: Don Wilkerson

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The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land Rhyd Wildermuth ISBN13: 9781572583382Many have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these settlers' self consciousness about what they were doing, what settling and cultivating the land itself meant. In The Health of the Country, Conevery Valencius shows that assessments of the sickliness or health of land pervade settlers' letters, journals, newspapers, and literature evidence of the common sense of another time, when land was