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"Wasty ways": Stories of American settlement
From: Environmental History
Date: 19980701
Author:Taylor, Alan
In his 1823 novel The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, James Fenimore Cooper recalls his childhood world: Otsego County in central New York during the 1790s, when settlers remade the local forest into farms. Cooper depicts the settlers as possessed by an irrational, emotional lust to decimate nature. Their slaughter of the wild plants and animals exceeds all considerations of economic need and interest. In two especially vivid scenes, the settlers of Templeton (the fictional version of the Otsego village of Cooperstown) festively muster to massacre a flock of passenger pigeons and ...
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