Marsh and Sauer: Reexamining the Rediscovery

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Notes

1. Laments about the “forgotten” Marsh have been legion (Whitaker 1940; Lowenthal 2003). Even Gifford Pinchot, who cited Man and Nature as foundational for his own forestry career, forgot Marsh by the end of the same memoir: “Suddenly the idea flashed through my head,” he wrote of a winter's‐day ride in Washington's Rock Creek Park, “that trees, public lands, mining, agriculture, stream flow, soil erosion, fish, were not isolated and separate problems,” but intimately conjoined. “But it has occurred to nobody, in this country or abroad, that here was … one single gigantic problem that must be solved” (Pinchot 1907, 322–23).

2. Sargent's correspondent Robert Underwood Johnson, a prominent conservationist editor, was an ally of both John Muir and Gifford Pinchot (Johnson 1923).

3. Sauer (1941) admired Tarr.

4. The material from Lowenthal 2000 that is within quotation marks has been marginally altered to make it conform with the subsequently found original 1875 review cited as Anon 1875.

5. Koelsch erroneously lists “Man and Nature or the Earth as Modified by Human Action (1864),” which conflates Marsh's later title with his original subtitle (Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action) and adds a non‐existent 1873 printing.

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David Lowenthal

Dr. Lowenthal is a professor emeritus of geography at University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; [[email protected]].