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George Bird Grinnell fue un antropólogo, escritor, historiador y naturalista estadounidense. Nació en Brooklyn, Nueva York y se graduó en la Universidad de Yale. Al terminar sus estudios se especializó en la Zoología, convirtiéndose en un famoso conservacionista y estudiante de las tribus amerindias de los Estados Unidos. Por su labor de investigación en el Parque nacional de los ...
background. Among these was George Bird Grinnell, the subject of this paper, who passed beyond on April 11, 1938, in his eighty-ninth year. 1 Born in Brooklyn, New York, September 20, 1849, he was the son of George Blake and Helen Lansing Grinnell. Among his ancestors were five Colonial governors and Betty Alden, the first white woman born in New
George Bird Grinnell (Brooklyn, 20 de setembre de 1849 - Nova York, 11 d'abril de 1938) fou un antropòleg, historiador, naturalista i escriptor estatunidenc.Va estudiar a la Universitat Yale on es llicencià en filosofia i lletres el 1870 i es doctorà el 1880. Professionalment es va orientar de primer a la zoologia i la paleontologia.La seva participació com a naturalista en missions ...
George Bird Grinnell tells the Blackfeet Creation Stories as they were told to him in varying forms. Very interesting but I think the short history of the Blackfeet that was at the very end of the book would have been better for the reader if it had been at the beginning of the book. history-western native-american.
This beautiful book takes George Bird Grinnell's classic work on the Cheyenne Indians and condenses it into 240 fully-illustrated pages of his most essential writings. Grinell was the long-time editor of Field & Stream magazine and helped to establish both the Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. During his career he documented several tribes of the old West, including this vivid account of ...
George Bird Grinnell, co-founder of the Boone and Crockett Club and son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell ...
45. Node order. 27. George Bird Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849. When he was about eight years old, his family moved to Audubon Park, where the widow of John James Audubon ran a small elementary school, which the young George attended. This childhood contact with the Audubons kindled a lifelong interest in natural history and conservation.
