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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"George Bird Grinnell -- the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. He was the son of a New York merchant, who saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America's conservation movement. He and Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club to promote "fair chase" of big game. His influence among the rich and the patrician provided leverage for the first federal legislation to protect migratory birds -- a precedent that ultimately paved the way for the Endangered Species Act. Drawing on forty thousand pages of Grinnell's correspondence and dozens of his diaries, Taliaferro reveals a man whose deeds and high-mindedness earned him a lustrous peerage, from presidents to chiefs, Audubon to Aldo Leopold, John Muir to Gifford Pinchot, Edward S. Curtis to Edward H. Harriman. Throughout his long life, Grinnell was bound by family and sustained by intimate friendships, toggling between the East and the West." --Provided by publisher. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Other edition |
Original 9781631490132 |
| Subject |
Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938.
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Natural history -- West (U.S.)
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Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Conservationists -- United States -- Biography.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781631490149
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| STANDARD # |
B8705A3C-DBA2-4310-A1D6-2DF164513B44 OverDrive |
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