By no means a definitive list, below is a sampling of a few of the selections we read in our Wild Lit class:

• Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Frazier Nash, 4th Edition, Yale University Press.

• The History of the Dividing Line, William Byrd of Westover, 1728 – 1736, The Westover Manuscripts.

• Journal of a Trapper, Osborne Russell, 1834 – 1843.

• Walking, Henry David Thoreau, 1862, English and American Classics, The Harvard Classics, 1909 - 1914.

• “The Problem of the West”, Frederick Jackson Turner, Atlantic Monthly, September 1896.

• “Wind Storm in the Forest”, John Muir, The Mountains of California, 1894.

• “To Build A Fire”, Jack London, The Century Magazine, v.76, August, 1908.

• “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, Robert W. Service, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, 1907.

• “Thinking Like A Mountain”, Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac, 1949.

• “Cliffrose and Bayonets”, Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, 1968.

• The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, Random House, 1971.

• The Survival of the Bark Canoe, John McPhee, Farrar; Straus & Giroux, 1975.

• “The Solace of Open Spaces,” Gretel Ehrlich, Solace of Open Spaces, 1986.

• Refuge, An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Terry Tempest Williams, 1991.

• “The Peace of Wild Things”, Wendell Berry, Collected Poems, North Point Press, 1985.

Selections by Rick Bass, Jack Turner, Charles Fergus and others.