Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 606pp. Octavo ; blue and ...
first edition Hardcover

2019

by Taliaferro, John
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 606pp. Octavo [24.5cm]; blue and brown paper covered boards with title in gilt on spine and publisher's colophon in gilt on front board. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug for dinosaurs on the Great Plains with eminent paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh--an expedition that fanned his romantic notion of wilderness and taught him a graphic lesson in evolution and extinction. Soon he joined George A. Custer in the Black Hills, helped to map Yellowstone, and scaled the peaks and glaciers (truncated)
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