Map 7 Resources

Books and articles

Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
Monmonier, Mark. "The Rise of the National Atlas," in John A. Wolter and Ronald E. Grim, ed., Images of the World: The Atlas through History, pp. 369-99. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997.
Perlin, John. A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.
Robinson, Arthur. Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Schwartz, Seymour and Ralph Ehrenberg. The Mapping of North America. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980.
Terrie, Philip. Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks. Blue Mountain and Syracuse, NY: The Adriondack Musuem/Syracuse University Press, 1999.
Terrie, Philip. Forever Wild: A Cultural History of Wilderness in the Adirondacks. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.

Online resources

Supplemental Images

Maps of current woodlands and vegetation cover, United States

natural landscapes across the United States

  1. desert, NM. Courtsey of Jesse Markow.
  2. Everglades, FL. Courtsey of the National Park Service.
  3. wetlands, NC. Courtsey of Richard and Patricia Hanf.
  4. savanna, WI. Dr. Virginia Kline photo, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin - Madison plant image collection.
  5. coniferous forest, WA. Ellen Williams photo, courtsey of Port of Chelan County, WA.
  6. prairie, KS. Courtsey of the National Park Service.
nineteenth-century uses of wood
  1. wood burning stove. The New American Stove Trade Card. Courtsey of Hagley Museum and Library.
  2. corduroy road in Vermont. Harry Fenn, "Corduroy Bridge, Mount Mansfield Road" in William Cullen Bryant, Pituresque America (New York, 1874).
  3. sawmill near St. Paul. "North Western Mills of Hersey, Bean and Brown" in A.T. Andreas, An Illustrated Atlas of the State of Minnesota, 53 (Chicago, 1874).
  4. loading lumber at Puget Sound. "Washington-Loading Lumber on Puget Sound" in West Shore-An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 66, 1887.
  5. ship building in Boston, MA. Wade, "Ship-building at East Boston" in Ballou's Pictorial, 8 (19 May 1855).
  6. cabin in woods, New York. Orasmus Turner, Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase, 1849.
  7. tapping trees for turpentine, North Carolina. John Andrew, "North Carolina" in Ballou's Pictorial (12 May 1855).

Grades K-2 Resources

  • images of landscapes across the United States (See Supplemental Images)

Grades 3-5 Resources

  • web sites of timber and paper companies. Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms does not endorse the site or operations of any timber or paper company. Some examples of sites are: Georgia Pacific: http://www.gp.com/forestry/index.html; Weyerhaeuser: http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/
  • your local historical society web site
  • information on Kirtland's warbler: http://www.macatawa.org/~oias/kirtland.htm
  • Maps of current woodlands and vegetation cover, United States (see Supplemental Images)
  • images of nineteenth-century uses of wood (see Supplemental Images)

Grades 6-8 Resources

Grades 9-12 Resources

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