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Audubon’s Wild West

by | Jul 21, 2016 | Western Books, Western Books & Movies

John James Audubon, revolutionary bird artist and founder of modern ornithology, traveled the American frontier in pursuit of his goals and recorded his adventures in voluminous journals. “No more extensive eyewitness testimony to the youthful United States…was ever written,” notes Daniel Patterson, editor and commentator of The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon (University of Nebraska Press, $75). One of Audubon’s most exciting excursions was his 1843 trip to the Upper Misso


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