The feather wars and the great crusade to save America's birds
"'A definitive history of bird conservation in America.' (Kirkus Reviews, starred) From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land's natural resources were infinite, including its birds, which were zealously hunted for food, game, and fashion. With the rapid extinction o...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Canada geese
- The shotgun ornithologists
- The tragedy of passenger pigeons
- Punt guns on the Chesapeake
- Oology and egg mania
- Bird hats and the voyage of the Bonton
- Starlings and the sparrow war
- Cold storage man
- John "O Birds" Burroughs
- Birth of the American Ornithologists' Union and the Model Law
- George Grinnell and the First Audubon Society
- Florence Merriam and bird study
- The ethics of Boone and Crocket
- Lake surprise and all the ducks in the world
- The Audubon movement redux
- Mister Ned's egrets
- The rise of National Audubon
- Songbirds and the black hand
- The Lacey Act
- Pelican Island: the first bird refuge
- A martyr for the cause
- Bird cranks: William Finley and Herman Bohlman
- TheReelfoot and the Big Lake Duck Wars
- Birds as a public trust
- The Weeks-McLean Act
- The plumage amendment
- "Backwoods horseplay": Missouri v. Holland
- Ludlow Griscom and sight recognition
- Flappers, bag limits, and game refuges
- Rosalie Edge, Audubon, and Hawk Mountain
- The Peterson system
- Ding Darling and the Great Depression
- The crisis today.
