William Emerson Strong, Glimpses of Travel in the West with the Lieutenant General of the Army (Ayer MS 3175), p. 11, Newberry Library.
Strong, "Travels," 11-15.
Nye, Much of this discussion is indebted to Meikle, Leo Marxs The Machine in the Garden, 147-59,
and John Kassons, Civilizing the Machine.
Jefferson to Charles Wilson Peale, April 17, 1813, in Robert C. Baron, ed., The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson (Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 1987), 202.