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Jared Farmer

Biography

Jared Farmer

Jared Farmer, a Utah native and former Californian, is the author of ON ZION'S MOUNT, a landscape history awarded the prestigious Parkman Prize for literary excellence. He teaches history at Stony Brook University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jared Farmer

Books by Jared Farmer

by Jared Farmer - Environment, History, Nonfiction

California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. TREES IN PARADISE offers an insightful, new perspective on the history of the Golden State and the American West.