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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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340 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Travel on the plains and in the mountains between 1861 and IST-t was not without its adventures and its thrills. Hunting experiences were many; buffalo hunts and stalks for smaller game were exciting; grizzly bears and wolves threatened, and some- times Indians captured. He who had a part in such events cannot forget them, and it is a joy to have one's recollections stirred l)y paintings of these old-time scenes.
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I ,■',,' I In- iHiintuKj by Car!/ Indian Boy Feeding His Pet Vrow (a portion only of the painting). — Indian children, like all others, are fond of pets. Besides their puppies, they often had young magpies, crows, antelope, foxes, rabbits, and perhaps even a buffalo calf Editorial Note.—The Journal, counts it a privilege to print this article by Dr. George Bird Grinnell, who writes so charmingly of the time depicted by the Gary paintings, yet lets fall no word of his own ex- periences of the Early West and of his authority as a writer on that period of America's development. For those not acquainted with Dr. Grinnell we give the following brief account of his years in the West and activities there, and also of his very notable achievements in the direction of conservation of our forests and wild life. His western experiences began immediately after his graduation from Yale when in 1M70 lie set out under Prof. O. C. Marsh on a six months' expedition in search of fossils. Four years later he accompanied General Custer's expedition to the Black Hills of Dakota, and in 1875 he accompanied Colonel — afterward General — William Ludlow on his survey of the country from Carroll, Montana, to the Yellowstone Na- tional Park. In 1885, and in subsequent years, he explored the region, then unknown, which is now the Glacier National Park, making the first sketch map and naming some of the natural features. About 1895 he took up, together with Senator T. H. Carter, of Montana, the question of setting it aside as a national park, and in May, 1910, the Glacier National Park was finally established. It was in 1895 also that he was appointed United States commissioner to treat with the Blackfeet and Fort Belknaj) Indians for the cession to the United States of a portion of their land. Dr. Grinnell not only was connected with the development of the West in this public way, but also iden- tified himself personally with the pioneer life there to the extent of owning and managing a horse and cattle ranch in Wyoming from 1882 to about 1900. For many years he has been interested in forest preservation and the conservation of wild life, and he worked long in behalf of the establishment in New York City of a zoological park — an establishment finally accomplished by the energy of Mr. Madison Grant in founding the New York Zoological Society. He or- ganized the Audubon Society for the protection of birds as early as 1886, and it was while president of the Forest and Stream Publishing Company and editor of its magazine that he used his opportunity through that journal to conduct a long fight for the preservation of the threatened integrity of the great Yellowstone National Park. Dr. Grinnell is the author of many books dealing with the early history of the West and with Indians — and the editor of others. In 1870 and the years following he spent much time in the Old Pawnee earth- lodge village on the Loup Fork, where the town of Genoa, Nebraska, now stands. In 1872 he accompanied a camp of four thousand Pawnees, Omahas, and Otoes on their summer buffalo hunt, and some of the incidents of this trip are described in his early book on the Pawnee Indians. Later he saw much of the Blackfeet, the Cheyennes, and certain branches of the Arapahos. Dr. Grinnell has recently become con- nected with the American Museum of Natural History as research associate in ethnology.

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