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George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life.
Jun 3, 2019 · From 1849, the year of his birth, to 1938, when his bones were buried in the family plot in the Bronx, George Bird Grinnell's life was a study in romanticism, evolution, and progressivism. It was the first of these that induced him and his fellow Yale University students to spend a summer out west with Professor Othniel Marsh.
Jul 22, 2019 · In John Taliaferro’s new fascinating biography, Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Drive to Save the West, his subject rises as a pathfinding historic connector between people with big enduring ideas and landscapes—many of which continue to evolve.
George Bird Grinnell was not from the Great Plains—he was born into a wealthy family in Brooklyn, New York, on September 20, 1849– but his studies of Plains Indians, and especially his role in the preservation of their histories, are fundamental to the region's legacy.
Although George Bird Grinnell — considered by many now and during his own era “the father of American conservation” — was not a member of OWAA, he probably should be acknowledged as it patron saint. By the time OWAA was founded in 1927, Grinnell was nearly 80 years old.
George Bird Grinnell. Subjects: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 ; Big game hunting ; Naturalists ; Boone and Crockett Club ; Conservation of natural resources. George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) was raised in New York where his family lived for a time on the former estate of John James Audubon.
The aptly named George Bird Grinnell developed an early and abiding love for birds. As a boy, he attended school in John James Audubon's mansion in Assigning, New York, near the...
Jul 24, 2019 · Among his greatest feats of conservation, George Bird Grinnell helped block a plan to build a dam in Yellowstone National Park. Credit... Private collection, John F. Reiger
Jun 10, 2021 · George Bird Grinnell is that reminder. Born in New York in 1849 and dying there in 1938, he straddled the age of the closing of the western frontier and the beginning of the age of now: no frontier, easy travel, and recreational hunting.
George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life.
