Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries in central and western New York, the traditional Haudenosaunee homeland.
 

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reading the Early American Landscape

1. Visions of the Great Island

2. Predators of the Vanishing Landscape

3. The Many Deaths of John Montour and the Mystery of the Painted Post

4. The Decline and Fall of the Romans of the West

5. The Burned-Over District

Conclusion: Storied Monuments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Chad L. Anderson is a visiting assistant professor of history at Hartwick College. His article “Rediscovering Native North America: Settlements, Maps, and Empires in the Eastern Woodlands” won the 2017 John Murrin Prize from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.