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33 the Prairie-Chicken Westemeier, “The History of Prairie-Chickens,” 21.
33 killed and shipped to market Bereman, “The Boom of the Prairie-Chicken,” 32.
33 “a Christmas present of prairie chickens” SLC to Critchell, Dec. 26-31, 1879, Hartford, CT, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL12963.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp accessed July 30, 2009.
33 Prairie Chickens “Aunt Babette’s” Cook Book (Cincinnati: Block, 1889), 90.
35 applying ammonium nitrate Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 41-44.
35 cultivated redtop grass Scott Simpson, personal communication, Dec. 22, 2006. See also Simpson, “Prairie Chickens: Promoting a Population ‘Boom,’” 22.
35 land going “corn sick” Betty Fussell, The Story of Corn (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992), 154-64.
36 “differences betwixt clear-water rivers” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985 and 2001), 112-13.
36 “her hurricane deck would be worth” Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 258.
36 six bushels of earth for every bushel of corn Benyus, Biomimicry, 15.
37 modern monocultures still shadow Madson, Where the Sky Began, 20.
37 ordered a roasted prairie chicken Mark Twain, “Sociable Jimmy,” New York Times, Nov. 29, 1874; reprinted in Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 20.
37 the first seeds of Huckleberry Finn’s Ibid., entire volume.
38 “divine place for wading” Twain, Autobiography, 7.
38 To Choose a Young Mary Newton Foote Henderson, Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877), 184.
43 Prairie-Chicken or Grouse Ibid.
45 the Eiffel Tower had been built Mark Twain, “‘Was the World Made for Man?’” in Collected Tales, 1891-1910, 576.
2. A BARREL OF ODDS AND ENDS: POSSUM AND RACCOON
51 In 1625, a muster James Deetz, Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993), 22-23.
52 Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, 4th ed. (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1963), 454.
52 “just as tasty as squirrel” Angus Cameron and Judith Jones, The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook (New York: Random House, 1983), 123.
53 “I remember the ’coon and ’possum hunts” Twain, Autobiography, 19.
53 “hungry, thirsty, tired” De Voe, The Market Assistant, 127.
54 their Algonquin name, aroughcun Dorcas MacClintock, A Natural History of Raccoons (Caldwell, NJ: Blackburn Press, 2002), 1.
54 the skin on its paws softens Ibid., 14.
54 A tapetum lucidum Ibid., 18.
54 tagged one blind raccoon with a radio Ibid., 20.
54 one two-hundred-pound hunter Ibid., 30.
55 twenty times as many raccoons Humane Society Web site, www.hsus.org, accessed Jan. 18, 2009.
56 knew more about growing rice Judith A. Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001). See also Karen Hess, The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992).
56 The farmers pierced each earthwork Carney, Black Rice, 17-19, 87-89.
56 “growing their crops on the riverain deposits” Ibid., 18.
56 French ships carried seed rice Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992), 59.
56 “accustomed to the planting of rice” Robert L. Hall, “Food Crops, Medicinal Plants, and the Atlantic Slave Trade,” in African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture, Anne L. Bower, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 23.
57 white farmers from slaveholding states like Virginia R. Douglas Hurt, Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri’s Little Dixie (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992), xii-6.
58 “a faithful and affectionate