To me, it almost seemed like White and Cronon looked at all the other readings, took the ideas, and molded it all into this article. Like Merchant, White and Cronon examine the different ways of life that NAs had in different places – namely, the Northeast, the Southwest, and the Plains – the same places discussed in American Environmental History: An Introduction, and noticing many of the same things too. However, many new things are also noted, such as the fact that the NA Apaches of the southwest shaped their landscape using fire, although this method of farming is discussed at length in Whitney's Preservers of the Ecological Balance Wheel. Like Zinn, Berkhofer, and Dunbar-Oritz, they examine the widely held myths that continue to persist around Native Americans. And, like the other readings, White and Merchant discuss the impacts that European settlers had on NA lifestyles, namely the introduction of disease, fur trading, and domestication.