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Article: hunting AUDUBON; In tracking America's elusive and immortal John James Audubon, author William Souder found that some of the artist's footsteps were still warm.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 18, 2004
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Byline: Sarah T. Williams; Staff Writer
He wore buckskin and wouldn't cut his hair, although he desperately needed access to the parlors and science academies of America. He loved birds passionately, even as he killed them by the thousands. And though he was mathematically exact in his depictions of nature, some of the tales he told were as outsized as the 27-by-40-inch portfolios he toted on his never-ending travels.
This was John James Audubon (1785-1851), whose fearless intensity and stubborn nonconformity found a kindred spirit in Stillwater author and freelance journalist William Souder. The result is "Under a Wild Sky" (North Point, 367 pages, ...