John Esten Cooke is usually thought of as a writer who ended one literary tradition and initiated another. Beginning his career as an imitator of James Fenimore Cooper and an author of pre-Revolutionary War fiction, Cooke became known, after serving four...
As a novelist and chronicler of Virginia history, John Esten Cooke was considered a major author in the South immediately before and following the Civil War. Although he was trained as a lawyer, Cooke devoted almost all of his energies to being a profess...
THE LAST FOREST. TOWARDS the end of the last century the Doodle Oak was tidied away. Named after a doodle-sack, or bagpipe, because of its pot-bellied shape, it had stood in Hatfield Forest since the days of King Edmund the Magnificent. It was...
People should assume responsibility for the preservation of frontier forests. Good stewardship involves complete protection of the forests as well as proper management of timber and other non-timber resources. Natural forests perform such ecosystem services as climate stabilization and watershed protection that benefit the...
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