Of Prairie, Woods, and Water

Preface
The Chicago Region—Introduction

LANDSCAPE

Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres
Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix

William Johnston's Tour from Fort Wayne to Chicago, 1809
William Johnston

A Visitor to Chicago in Indian Days: "Journal to the Far-Off West"
Colbee Benton

Talk of the Town
Robert P. Saunders

A Summer Journey in the West
Eliza Steele

Berrien and Cass Counties
G. F.

Sketches of My Own Times
David Turpie

Rats! Rats! Rats!
Carl Schurz

Prince of Wales in Canada and the United States
Nicholas A. Woods

Breeding habits of Ardea heroias as Seen During a Visit to Crane Town
B.

The Shooting Clubs of Chicago—No. IX: The Grand Calumet Heights Club
Emerson Hough

Voices of the Dunes and Other Etchings
Earl Reed

Tales of a Vanishing River [The "Wether Book" by Josiah Granger]
Earl Reed

Most Interesting Interview with Mrs. Druscilla Carr
J. W. Lester

The Tippecanoe River
Theodore Dreiser

An Early Illinois Prairie
Albert W. Herre

The Kankakee in the Old days
F. E. Ling

A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region
Elliot Downing

A Hoosier Tramp
Samuel A. Harper

The Sand Dunes of Indiana
E. Stillman Bailey

BOTANY

Our Native Grasses
George Vasey

Prairie Woodlands
Ellsworth Jerome Hill

The Plant Societies of Chicago and Vicinity
Henry Chandler Cowles

Round About Chicago
Louella Chapin

Reading the Landscape of America
May T. Watts

On Improving the Property
May T. Watts

Impressions of the Warren Woods
Wendell Paddock

An Annotated Flora of the Chicago Area
Herman S. Pepoon

Dune Boy: The Early Years of a Naturalist
Edwin Way Teale

LAND ANIMALS

Pigeons!
Darius Cook

Notes on the Ornithology of Wisconsin
Philo R. Hoy

The Quadrupeds of Illinois, Injurious and Beneficial to the farmer
Robert Kennicott

Recollections of Bird-Life in Pioneer Days
Halvor L. Skavlem

Birds of Northeastern Illinois
Edward W. Nelson

Birds of Lakeside and Prairie
Edward B. Clark

Nature Sketches in Temperate America
Joseph Lane Hancock

Months of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter

A Day Among the Waterfowl and Its Sequel
G. Eifrig

Memoirs of the Naturalist
Herbert L. Stoddard Sr.

Bird Notes from Trailside Museum
Mary Block

[Notes on a Woodcock]

Stephen S. Gregory Jr.

Bird Life of a Roadside Marsh
Alfred M. Bailey

American Egrets in the Lake Region
W. J. Beecher

Green Herons
Donald Boyd

Passenger Pigeon in Northeastern Illinois
Benjamin T. Gault

Reminiscences of Early Experiences in teh Chicago Area
Benjamin T. Gault

Geolycosa, The Wolf of the Dunes
Donald C. Lowrie

The Opossum, Prophet without Honor
D. Dwight Davis

Pyramids of Palos
A. S. Windsor

On the Trail of the Chat
Amy Baldwin

Cliff Swallows
Violet F. Hammond

An Old Colony of Cliff Swallows
Alfred Lewy

Wildlife of Elk Grove Preserve
Gordon Sawyer Pearsall

My Secret Places: One Man's Love Affair with Nature in the City
Leonard Dubkin

Life Plus 99 Years
Nathan F. Leopold Jr.

WATER WORLD

Letter to Spencer F. Baird [Regarding Crayfish]
R. P. Stearns

Southern Cook County and History of Blue Island Before the Civil War
Ferdinand Schapper

Sea and River Fishing: Fish in Season in November
S. C. Clarke

Letter [Fish Pot Hunters]
Pickerel

Black Bass Fishing in Fox River
Fred J. Wells

Gleanings from Nature
W. S. Blatchley

The Fish Market of Chicago
Illinois Board of Fish Commissioners

Animal Communities in Temperate North America
Victor Shelford

The Nesting Habits of Certain Sunfishes as Observed in a Park Lagoon in Chicago
Carl L. Hubbs

A River Mussel Parasitic on a Salamander
Arthur D. Howard

A Survey of Fishes in an Illinois Stream
Loren P. Woods

Observations on Lake Michigan Fishes at Chicago
Loren P. Woods

MINDSCAPES

Miscellany [Wolf Hunts]
H.

Six Months with the Indians
Darius B. Cook

Letter in Defense of Snakes
John Kennicott

A History of the County of Du Page, Illinois
C. W. Richmond and H. F. Vallette

A Day's Hunting in 1871 on the Club's Ground
South Shore Country Club

Field, Clover, and Trap Shooting
Adam Bogardus

History of Kendall County
E. W. Hicks

Game Hunt
Anonymous

Duck Shooting Around Fox Lake
Anonymous

Then and Now—the Extermination of Game
Lowther

Prairie Chicken Shooting and Trapping Fifty Years Ago
Anonymous

Plover Shooting on the Prairie
Rock Jr.

Recollections of Calumet
Blue Wing

A Plea for the Wild Duck
Anonymous

Statement Read before the Central Illinois Sportsman's Association by Its President
George Hayden

Letter from Princeton, Illinois [in Favor of Hunting Hawks]
Anonymous

Letter [Wasteful Hunting on the Des Plaines River]
J. G. Nattrass

Our Hearts were Young and Gay
Edward R. Ford

Skokie Memories
Edward R. Ford

The Naturalist
Edawrd R. Ford

Who Kills the Birds?
Mary Drummond

Colonel Isaac Washington Brown: The Bird and Bee Man
Henry A. Pershing

When the Lotus Are in Bloom
Laura Buchannon

Letter to Illinois Audobon Society
Olga Vrablik

Nature Recreation in Chicago
William G. Vinal

A Prairie Grove
Donald Culross Peattie

Some Scenes Years Ago at the Dunes Recalled with Great Pleasure
Donald Culross Peattie

Chicago Park District vs. Arthur Canfield
Illinois Supreme Court

Siftings
Jens Jensen