Dominic Green Dominic Green

Into the woods of 19th-century America

The pressing need for timber in the 1830s led to tree-felling on vast scale – and the displacement of countless Native Americans

The Onandaga chief Ut-ha-wah, by William John Wilgus, 1838. [Alamy]

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