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 Burrou...
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 large-circula...
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 centur...
A whopping great whooping crane COUNTLESS journals have told of the beauty and danger of early America's wilderness. Far fewer have included attempts to sketch it. Thank goodness, then, for the perseverance of John James Audubon, the bastard son of a French naval...
They were the most unlikely friends: the hard-living, hard-drinking bastard of a French sea captain and the quiet, teetotaling pastor of a conservative Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Yet John James Audubon (Pl. I) and the Reverend John Bachman (Pl. III) were united...
The Butler Institute of American Art has paid $1.6 million to acquire its first Norman Rockwell painting, "Lincoln the Railsplitter."The painting was bought Nov. 30 in a sale at Christie's Auction House in New York. The previous owner was Texas billionaire and former presidential candidate...
Today is Thursday, April 26, the 116th day of 2007. There are 249 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Four hundred years ago, on April 26, 1607, English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Va., on an expedition to establish the first permanent...
