Kathryn MorseKathryn Morse is professor of history and John C. Elder Professor in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. Her first book was The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (University of Washington Press, 2003), and sh is currently working on an illustrated environmental history of the United States. She is also the author of The Nature of War: An Environmental History of Mount Independence (Orwell, VT: The Mount Independence Coalition, 2006). Read More Read Less