The complete online text of Wake-Robin by John Burroughs.

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...

Winifred Stanford remembers five years ago when the Wake Robin Golf Club celebrated its 60th anniversary. A woman unfamiliar with the club was struck by who was playing in the club's tournament. "She couldn't believe so many black women were playing golf," Stanford...

The night that Dutch DeHoke came to the Renn house, Aunt Jennie filled a wooden tub with warm water and gave Dutch a bath. The unfamiliarity of the whole business--mellow lamplight, ministering hands, a smell of bacon and ginger cake in the...