George Bird Grinnell
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Oct 21, 2026
Andrew MooreGUEST
Mm-hmm.
EliHOST
And then she w- ended up being George Bird Grinnell's teacher.
EliHOST
Like she-
Andrew MooreGUEST
Mm
EliHOST
... tutored him and George Bird Grinnell went on to be one of the most influential people in conservation.
EliHOST
And even Estella Leopold, Aldo Leopold's wife, like she was doing...
EliHOST
As far as on land work, like you can find pictures of her planting trees, shooting bows with her kids.
Michelle FryeNARRATOR
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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. American Big Game Hunting, Section 11 In Buffalo Days by George Bird Grinnell Part 1 On the floor, on either side of my fireplace, lie two buffalo skulls.
Michelle FryeNARRATOR
They are white and weathered, the horns cracked and bleached by the snows and frosts and the rains and heats of many winters and summers.
Michelle FryeNARRATOR
Often, late at night, when the house is quiet, I sit before the fire and muse and dream of the old days, and as I gaze at these relics of the past, they take life before my eyes.
26 MINS LATER
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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. American Big Game Hunting, section 12, In Buffalo Days by George Bird Grinnell, part 2.
Michelle FryeNARRATOR
Although only one species of buffalo is known to science, old mountaineers and Indians tell of four kinds.
Sally HelmHOST
She teaches reading, writing, music, and, of course, natural history.
Sally HelmHOST
One of her students is a boy named George Bird Grinnell.
Sally HelmHOST
Bird was a family name, but it's perfect because he finds himself drawn to John Audubon's legacy.
Sally HelmHOST
Lucy invites him to see her husband's vast collection of specimens and artwork and regales him with stories of Audubon's adventures out in the wilderness.
Sally HelmHOST
It's estimated that millions of birds are being killed every year to meet this demand.
Sally HelmHOST
Some species are brought to the brink of extinction.
Sally HelmHOST
George Bird Grinnell sees this and says,
Robert FrancisGUEST
It's wrong to kill millions and millions and millions of birds for fashion.
Ramsey RussellHOST
Take us back to 1887.
Ramsey RussellHOST
What was happening to American wildlife that made, uh, legendary Americans like Roosevelt, Grinnell, and, and the other founders of Boone and Crockett realize that hunting needed a new ethic?
Tony SchoonenGUEST
Well, Ramsey, that goes back actually two years before the club was formed, uh, back in, actually four years, 1883, 1884, that timeframe.
Tony SchoonenGUEST
And Roosevelt lost his, uh, wife and his mother on the same day.
12 MINS LATER
Mike OpitzGUEST
This is a herd that at one point numbered 40 million across North America.
Mike OpitzGUEST
He couldn't find a single one, and he watched the slaughter of all of the big game species across the West.
Mike OpitzGUEST
And it was, it was in the, about 1887, he finally came back from his Elkhorn Ranch to New York City, and he said, "I'm gonna gather 100 men, and we are gonna save the big game of North America." And, and guys like Gifford Pinchot and a, and an instrumental member of that was George Bird Grinnell, who at the time was the, the owner and editor of Forest and Stream magazine, and they used, they, they used that magazine to get the word out to the public.
Mike OpitzGUEST
And then they, then they decided to put together this collection called the National Collection of Heads and Horns.
Ramsey RussellHOST
Take us back to 1887.
Ramsey RussellHOST
What was happening to American wildlife that made, uh, legendary Americans like Roosevelt, Grinnell, and, and the other founders of Boone and Crockett realize that hunting needed a new ethic?
Tony SchoonerGUEST
Well, Ramsey, that goes back actually two years before the club was formed, uh, back in, actually four years, 1883, 1884, that timeframe.
Tony SchoonerGUEST
And Roosevelt lost his, uh, wife and his mother on the same day.
12 MINS LATER
Mike OpitzGUEST
This is a herd that at one point numbered 40 million across North America.
Mike OpitzGUEST
He couldn't find a single one, and he watched the slaughter of all of the big game species across the West.
Mike OpitzGUEST
And it was, it was in the, about 1887, he finally came back from his Elkhorn Ranch to New York City, and he said, "I'm gonna gather 100 men, and we are gonna save the big game of North America." And, and guys like Gifford Pinchot and a, and an instrumental member that was George Bird Grinnell, who at the time was the, the owner and editor of Forest and Stream magazine, and they used, they, they used that magazine to get the word out to the public.
Mike OpitzGUEST
And then they, then they decided to put together this collection called the National Collection of Heads and Horns.
SarahHOST
You know, you did s- many things, and this is one of the things that he also did.
SarahHOST
He would guide visitors like George Bird Grinnell and James J. Hill, which is the father of Louis Hill, and he was the owner of the Great Northern Railroad.
JoshHOST
Hmm.
SarahHOST
So, um, lot of stories there.
Larry Len PetersonGUEST
They used, you know, in the Harriman expedition to Alaska with Edward S. Curtis went along, they had the graphophone.
Larry Len PetersonGUEST
Curtis recorded tons of Native American languages, as did George Bird Grinnell when he was visiting different reservations.
Larry Len PetersonGUEST
So...
Larry Len PetersonGUEST
Russell was such a storyteller.
JoshHOST
And Sarah, what do we, what are we doing now?
SarahHOST
George Bird Grinnell, he named that mountain too.
JoshHOST
Oh, man, Grinnell, what a great guy.
SarahHOST
[laughs]