Notes - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 408

rants.” The earlier proselytizer was Daniel Kidder, and his volume also had considerable influence on
migrants. See Kidder, Brazil and the Brazilians .
58. The entrance and settlement of US citizens has periodically provided a justification for invading
a country. See Graham-Yooll, Imperial Skirmishes ; Hill, Roosevelt and the Caribbean ; Leonard, United
States-Latin American Relations ; Rivas, Missionary Capitalist .
59. Dawsey and Dawsey, Confederados ; Hill, “Confederates in Middle America”; Rolle, The Lost
Cause .
60. Dunn, Brazil, the Home for Southerners .
61. Hastings, Immigrants Guide to Oregon and California ; Hastings, New Description of Oregon
and California .
62. The Donner party was a group of immigrants who were stranded by sets of blizzards in the Si-
erra. Those who survived did so by cannibalism. Mark Twain provided a blackly humorous description
of the event in Roughing It .
63. Hastings was not entirely foolish. In siting the colony at Santarém, he had settled his party on
one of the largest outcroppings of terra preta , the highly fertile, anthropogenic Amazon dark earths.
His descriptions of high yields may not have been entirely a function of his own hyperbole. See
Petersen, Neves, and Heckenberger, “Gift from the Past,” in McEwan, Barreto, and Neves, eds.,
Unknown Amazon ; Guilhon, Confederados em Santarém ; Harter, Lost Colony of the Confederacy .
Guilhon states that the first and largest rubber plantations were planted there by confederados and that
the performance of this plantation (some 10,000 trees) helped convince Henry Ford of the viability of
rubber for the creation of his huge rubber estate, Fordlândia. Dean, Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber ;
Grandin, Fordlândia .
64. Dawsey and Dawsey, Confederados ; Guilhon, Confederados em Santarém .
65. Grandin, Fordlândia ; Guilhon, Confederados em Santarém ; Hecht and Cockburn, Fate of the
Forest .
66. See for example Hartt and Agassiz, Thayer Expedition ; James, Agassiz, and Pedro, Imperador
do Brasil .
67. Dean, Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber ; Jackson, Thief at the End of the World .
68. Werlich, Admiral of the Amazon .
69. Orton, Andes and the Amazon .
70. Twain, “Turning Point of My Life,” in Paine, Favorite Works of Mark Twain .
71. Quoted in Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents , 6:54-55.
72. Horne, Deepest South . Also see Bennett, Forced into Glory .
73. Bennett, Forced into Glory .
74. Francis Blair cited in Horne, Deepest South .
75. Cleven, “Some Plans for Colonizing.”
76. May, Manifest Destiny's Underworld .
77. Yrisarri, who was acting foreign minister of El Salvador and Guatemala, was quite stern in his
rejection, seeing in this colonization “the evils . . . in this form of colonization.” See Cleven, “Some
Plans for Colonizing.”
78. Pomeroy, “Information.”
79. Espino, How Wall Street Created a Nation ; LaRosa and Mejía, United States Discovers Panama ;
Missal, Seaway to the Future .
80. Carter, Road to Botany Bay ; Forster, France and Botany ; Redfield, Space in the Tropics .
81. Webb, Slavery and Its Tendencies .