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Apr 12, 2021 · April 12, 2021 — George Bird Grinnell, a respected authority on the Plains Indians, passed away on this date in 1938; he was 88 and had led a vigorous and amazingly productive life.
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Jul 24, 2019 · Though the great American Birdman had died in 1851, two years after Grinnell’s birth, his widow, Lucy Audubon, became a teacher of sorts to the boy who roamed the forested New York precinct...
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 · George Bird Grinnell, ca. 1893. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) By 1926, 16 years after the park's creation, America had beaten a path to its entrances and invaded its innermost redoubts.
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.
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Jun 11, 2022 · George Bird Grinnell, a respected authority on the Plains Indians, passed away on this date in 1938 at the age of 88. In 2004, conservationist Shane Mahoney wrote this of Grinnell: “He was many things: scientist, hunter, explorer, naturalist, entrepreneur and author.
