The 1946 winner, "Son of the Wilderness", detailed the life of this Sierra Club founder
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Linnie Marsh Wolfe - Revolvy  She won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for her 1945 ... of Those Just Added by Columbia's Trustees to Roll of Pulitzer Prize Winners". ... "Linnie Marsh Wolfe: Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir". .... The Sierra Club , which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.
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Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie ... - LibraryThing  All about Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe. ... This won the 1946 Pulitzer prize for biography, and since I am sort of 'doing' those winners, I read it. It is the 62nd Pulitzer-prize-winning biography I have read. It tells the ... Muir was a founder of the Sierra club, and did a lot to call attention to the...
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[astronomy Book]  Son of the Wilderness PDF by Linnie Marsh ...  Son of the Wilderness By Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Author Cristian Ameloni) ... traveler writer of persuasive magazine articles Alaskan explorer founder of the Sierra Club ... This all encompassing, Pulitzer Prize winning biography of the archetypal ... detail the extraordinarily abundant life of the grand old man of the Sierra s Wolfe...
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Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie ... - Goodreads  Son of the Wilderness has 108 ratings and 17 reviews. ... Alaskan explorer; founder of the Sierra Club; essential influence in formation of National ... This all-encompassing, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the archetypal ... Retracing in stunning detail the extraordinarily abundant life of the grand old man of the Sierra's.
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Saving the Redwoods: The Ideology and Political Economy of ...  An expedition of American scientists to Szechuan in 1946 found more than ..... 60 John Muir, quoted in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of ...... While John Muir and the Sierra Club he founded in 1892 directed their efforts at ... the first detailed proposals to preserve coast redwoods came from club member...
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McCormick Tract History - McCormick Tract Wilderness Area  His son Cyrus Hall McCormick at the age of 22 studied his fathers records of ... and the McCormick Co., joined together under the name International Harvester Co. ... and his son Cyrus became President of McCormick Co. and went on his first...
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John Steinbeck - Wikipedia  John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902  December 20, 1968) was an American author of ... The winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been called "a giant of ... Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. ... His father, John Ernst Steinbeck (18621935), served as Monterey County...
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From the Archives: Ansel Adams, Artist With a Camera, Dies - LA ...  Apr 24, 1984 ... At his death, more than a million books of his photographs rested on coffee .... He was a Sierra Club director from 1936 to 1970, and his many...
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John Steinbeck | Biography, Books and Facts - Famous Authors  Steinbeck's initial novels, Cup of Gold (1929), The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To ... the novel bears the story of an intricate relationship between two migrant workers. ... A bestseller, the book won Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and was ... In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck wrote the story of a tenant farming family...
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Biography or Autobiography - The Pulitzer Prizes  The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, by ... Lindbergh, by A. Scott Berg (G.P. Putnam's Sons) ... God: A Biography, by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf) ... Truman, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster).
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Adam Werbach - Wikipedia  Adam Werbach, is an environmental activist, author, and entrepreneur. In 1996, Werbach became the youngest person ever elected as national president of the Sierra Club, at the age of 23. ... Werbach was appointed in 2003 by San Francisco city supervisor Chris Daly to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission while...
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Theodore Roosevelt - Wikipedia  Theodore Roosevelt Jr was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and .... Theodore's fourth cousin, James Roosevelt I, who was also a businessman, was the ..... In the 1888 presidential election, Roosevelt successfully campaigned, .... Theodore Roosevelt had anticipated a second term as governor or,...
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Father of Ecology, and Long Island - The New York Times  Feb 22, 1998 ... ''As a scientist I'd as soon have a louse named for me as a mountain, '' said ... ''Robert Cushman Murphy was the greatest scientist and naturalist Long ... In 1987, on the 100th anniversary of Murphy's birth, Mr. Englebright ... The editor of ''Silent Spring,'' Paul Brooks, wrote in Audubon magazine in 1984:...
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The Son of the Wolf (Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio)): Jack ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Jack London (1876 1916) was a prolific American novelist ... This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won .... This was Jack London's first book, a collection of short stories first published in 1900. These nine stories all take place...
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Theodore Roosevelt - Influential People in the Life of ... - Sierra Club  Guided into the Yosemite wilderness by naturalist John Muir, the president went on a three-day wilderness trip that started at the Mariposa Grove, and included...
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Who Sierra Club National Awards are Named After | Sierra Club  The Ansel Adams Award, which honors individuals who have made ... (1912-2000), who was the Sierra Club's first executive director and the father of the modern ... of the Club's publications and development operation helped turn the organization ... and conservationist who served five terms as president of the Sierra Club.
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John Muir National Historic Site - The John Muir Exhibit - Sierra Club  John Muir National Historic Site (Martinez, California), presented by Sierra Club John Muir Exhibit. ... The Site preserves the Victorian residence and a part of the fruit ranch where the naturalist John Muir lived from 1890 to his death in 1914. ... Visitors today can tour the home, see Muir's "scribble-den" where he wrote his...
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The Wilderness Road - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  In 1775, the now-legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone blazed a trail through the ... to the western United States for some 300,000 settlers over the next 35 years. ... the Cumberland Gap using part of what would become the Wilderness Road. ... led by Dr. Thomas Walker set out from Virginia with the aim of exploring lands...
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Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt  Sierra Club (654). 65. Hetch Hetchy Valley. 66. multiple use resource management (655). Reading 28-4. 67. defanged himself. 68. Theodore the Meddler.
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John Steinbeck - Wikipedia  John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902  December 20, 1968) was an American author of ... The winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been called "a giant of ... Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. ...... John Steinbeck, Novels and Stories 19321937 (Library of America, 1994)...