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A Short Biography of John Burroughs

Author Name:

John Burroughs

Born As:

John Burroughs

Other Names:

John Burroughs

Born:

3 Apr 1837

Died:

29 Mar 1921




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Naturalist and writer                          
Selected Works:


Burroughs gravesite today, Boyhood Rock with plaque on left
Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person - 1867
Wake Robin - 1871
Winter Sunshine - 1875, - travel sketches
Birds and Poets - 1877
Locusts and Wild Honey - 1879
Pepacton - 1881
Fresh Fields - 1884, - travel sketches
Signs and Seasons - 1886
Birds and bees and other studies in nature - 1896
Indoor Studies - 1889
Riverby - 1894
Whitman: A Study - 1896
The Light of Day - 1900
Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers - 1900
Songs of Nature - Editor - 1901
John James Audubon - 1902, - biography
Literary Values and other Papers - 1902
Far and Near - 1904
Ways of Nature - 1905
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt - 1906
Bird and Bough - 1906, - poetry
Afoot and Afloat - 1907
Leaf and Tendril - 1908
Time and Change - 1912
The Summit of the Years - 1913
The Breath of Life - 1915
Under the Apple-Trees - 1916
Field and Study - 1919
Accepting the Universe - 1920
Under the Maples - 1921
The Last Harvest - 1922
My Boyhood, with a Conclusion by His Son Julian Burroughs - 1922.                          
Seventh child of Chauncy and Amy Kelly Burroughs' ten children.