george bird grinnell

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 181

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 26, 2017

This is the grave of George Bird Grinnell. Born in 1849 to an old money New York elite family, Grinnell graduated from Yale in 1870. He was part of a first generation of easterners fascinated by a disappearing American West and he would make his...

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