Word: befouled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americana is the day's rage, but the hest of it needs no rewriting. Thus this vasty Audubon, who could prevision the cities that were to mar and befoul his beautiful Ohio River; the laying waste of the forests; the slaughter of the deer and wild pigeons. He felt, a century ago, that he must hurry to record the natural state of a world already vanishing. Monuments and societies have been set up in his name by people who hope that it is not yet too late for conservation. If such people are really interested in Audubon, this book...