Menace of the Unknown

7月 11, 2010 · Posted in 未分類 

Birding in the wild lands of America was combined with the acute danger of hostile Indians and with the menace of the unknown. It is somehow amazing to picture these men on the government expeditions-Sir John Richardson with the Hudson’s Bay Company in the fur countries of northern Canada; Lewis and Clark in the Oregon Country; John K. Townsend and Thomas Nuttall naming birds from Massachusetts to San Diego; John James Audubon traveling, ever bird-hungry, along the Wabash and the Ohio and down to New Orleans and Florida, into the far West, and up into Labrador.

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