The American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs (1837-1921) wrote prolifically of his experiences in nature and was one of America's most honored writers at the beginning of the 20th century. The seventh of 10 children of Chauncy and Amy Kelly...

One of the best-known and most widely read nature writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, John Burroughs is largely unknown and unread today. Prolific and consistent, Burroughs published scores of essays in influential...

John Burroughs is still revered by some conservationists and bird watchers as the Homer of the nature essay. As a literary critic, however, he has been met since his death in 1921 with a silence that belies the influence he exercised during a half...

A follower of both Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Burroughs more clearly defined the nature essay as a literary form. His writings provided vivid descriptions of outdoor life and gained popularity among a diverse audience. Burroughs spent...

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837-March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was...

John Burroughs and the Place of Nature. By James Perrin Warren. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. xiii + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95. John Burroughs, it appears, is having a bit of a renaissance. A century removed from his...

Introduction This is the second of a two-part special issue of ATQ on John Burroughs and the nineteenth century. My fuller introduction is found in the September 2007 issue, along with articles by John Tallmadge, on rediscovering Burroughs's themes, form, and style,...

Henry Ford had a better idea. Three of them, in fact. He didn’t invent the internal-combustion engine, but his four-cylinder, 20-horsepower Model T—Brewster green in the early years, then black and only black—became the “universal car” of the 1910’s and 20’s. “No man making a...

Henry Ford had a better idea. Three of them, in fact. He didn’t invent the internal-combustion engine, but his four-cylinder, 20-horsepower Model T—Brewster green in the early years, then black and only black—became the “universal car” of the 1910’s and 20’s. “No man making a...