Stewartsville: George R. Stewart's Names on the Land

Christine Smallwood

November 19, 2008 | This article appeared in the December 8, 2008 edition of The Nation.

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What possessed the fierce individualist George R. Stewart to compile a history of place-naming in the United States?

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Christine Smallwood

Christine Smallwood, a writer in New York, is former associate literary editor of The Nation.

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