No Woman Tenderfoot: Florence Merriam Bailey, Pioneer NaturalistTexas A&M University Press, 1989 - 225 pages Years before pesticides and other pollutants began to endanger species, humans had no trouble finding less-sophisticated ways of endangering wildlife. When the twentieth century had barely begun, the passenger pigeons had been slain to the last and the American bison had been hunted to the brink of extinction. Love of and concern for nature called people like Florence Merriam Bailey to action. |
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Babe in the Woods 18631882 | 3 |
Collegebound Special 18821885 | 23 |
Bonnets and Burroughs 18861887 | 31 |
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No Woman Tenderfoot: Florence Merriam Bailey, Pioneer Naturalist Harriet Kofalk No preview available - 2000 |
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