Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. To the Mississippi
1. Bartram’s Westerly Wanderings: Economic Transitions in Travels | Taylor McGaughy
2. “A Prospect of the Grand Sublime”: An Atlantic World Borderland Seen and Unseen by William Bartram | Daniel H. Usner
Part 2. Bartram and the Natural World
3. Wrestling with Bartram’s Alligators | Kathryn H. Braund
4. The White Cliffs of the Mississippi: Bartram and Deep Time | Dorinda G. Dallmeyer
5. Bartram’s Tree: Franklinia alatamaha | Joel T. Fry
Part 3. Visual Bartram
6. “To See the Moveing Pensil; Display a Sort of Paper Creation, Which May Endure for Ages”: William Bartram as a Natural History Artist | Joel T. Fry
7. Lively Pictures: William Bartram and Drawing ad vivum | Elizabeth Athens
8. “Behold!”: Visual Mediation in Bartram’s Travels | Andrew B. Ross
Part 4. On Bartram’s trail
9. How to Blaze a Trail: Lessons from the Pioneers of the Bartram Trail Conference | Katie Lamar Jackson
10. Commemorating Bartram: The Bartram Trail Conference and Interpreting William Bartram | Brad Sanders
11. Signing Nature, Memorializing Plantations: Public Memory along the William Bartram Trail | Thomas Hallock
Part 5. The Bartram Library
12. Shelving Knowledge in Philadelphia: John and William Bartram’s Books | Robert McCracken Peck
13. Bartram’s Travels 1791: A Bibliographic Census | William Cahill, Joel T. Fry, Nancy E. Hoffmann, and Alina Josan
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index