A Bird-Lover in the West

by Olive Thorne Miller

Overview

A Bird-Lover in the West is bird studies book that describes the bird life in the Western United States and it has this passage: "The studies in this volume were all made, as the title indicates, in the West; part of them in Colorado (1891), in Utah (1893), and the remainder (1892) in what I have called "The Middle Country," being Southern Ohio, and West only relatively to New England and New York, where most of my studies have been made. Several chapters have appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly" and other magazines, and in the "Independent" and "Harper's Bazar," while others are now for the first time published." OLIVE THORNE MILLER.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692371916
Publisher:	Idle Winter Press
Publication date:	02/06/2015
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Olive Thorne Miller (1831-1918) was a naturalist, ornithologist and children's writer. She was the eldest of four children, born in Auburn, New York. In addition to writing on birds and their behavior, Miller contributed to the journal of the Audubon Society. Between 1858 and 1869 she gave up writing in order to raise her kids. In 1880 she became an avid bird watcher. Miller was a proponent of the movement to prevent hunting of birds for use of their plumes in the millinery trade.