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The Junior Project: Americans and Nature

Periods:
1800 - 1860

Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature.
Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleep Hollow and other stories.
Thoreau, Henry David. Life in the Woods (Walden).

1860 - 1899

Melville, Herman. Typee or Oomoo
Twain, Mark. Life on the Missisppi.
Twain, Mark. Roughin' It.
Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself" from Leaves of Grass, 1855.

1900 - 1919
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. 1918
Jewett, Sarah Orne. Country of the Pointed Firs. 1910
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. 1903
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.

1920 - 1939
Jeffers, Robinson. Collected Poems.
Rolvaag, Ole. Giants in the Earth

1940 - 1959
Frost, Robert. Collected Poems

1960 - 1979
Faulkner, William. The Bear. 1964

1980 - 1999