The people behind the books
Voices with a world
of their own.
1860–1946
Ernest Thompson Seton
The wild as a school of close attention.
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1806–1854
Robert Montgomery Bird
Where civilization becomes a fragile line.
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1863–1947
Henry Ford
The factory as an argument.
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1790–1853
Lady Florentia Sale
A diary written inside the collapse.
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1857–1941
Robert Baden-Powell
A handbook that set off a world movement.
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1821–1890
George Washington Sears
Go light; the lighter the better.
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1823–1893
Francis Parkman
The West before it became a legend.
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1793–1868
James Hall
Soldier, frontier judge, chronicler of the West.
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1850–1941
Daniel Carter Beard
The buildings here suggested require a woodsman more than an architect.
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1856–1925
H. Rider Haggard
Most alive as a writer when a line across a map opened into country not yet crossed.
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1848–1887
Richard Jefferies
The wind went seawards, and the stars are always over the ocean.
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1771–1810
Charles Brockden Brown
“Brown is great as ever human writer was in showing the self-sustaining force of which a lonely mind is capable.” — Margaret Fuller, 1846
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