The American chestnut : an environmental history /
Donald Edward Davis.
- xiv, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chestnuts on the Move -- The Evolutionary History of the Species -- Chestnut Encounters -- The Seasonal Bounty of Nuts and Acorns -- Wherever There Are Mountains -- The Most Celebrated Hunting Grounds -- Cash Will Be Paid If Delivered Soon -- Placed There by a Quadruped or Bird -- Along All Prominent Thoroughfares -- Chestnut Decline -- The Wonder and Admiration of All -- To Maintain the Balance of Nature -- Grandfather Had Lived in a Log -- A National Calamity -- Chestnut Revival -- Genes for Blight Resistance. pt. One ch. 1 pt. Two ch. 2 ch. 3 ch. 4 ch. 5 ch. 6 ch. 7 pt. Three ch. 8 ch. 9 ch. 10 ch. 11 pt. Four ch. 12
"'The American Chestnut' tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts. While he pays much attention to the importation of chestnut blight and the tree's decline as a dominant species, the author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species."--