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The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y.

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and H. D. Minot · 1877

A bird survey co-written by the young Theodore Roosevelt and H. D. Minot based on their observations in the Adirondacks.

A youthful co-written bird survey showing Roosevelt's early scientific curiosity before his political life.

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The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and H. D. Minot, The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y., 1877.

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This is a scanned copy of The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y., written by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. together with H. D. Minot. It is a catalogue of bird observations made in the Adirondack Mountains during the 1870s, with each writer marking which notes were his own.

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This document comes from Roosevelt's youth, showing his early scientific interests and his collaboration with another naturalist. It reveals the detailed, methodical observation skills that stayed with him through his later life as a conservation-minded president.

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