Word: perkiomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pampered child learned stalking tricks near his Nantes home. After brief study of painting under Classicist David, he was sent to America, where he devoted himself to sketching wild life, playfully at first, later so earnestly that he spent many years in almost incredible explorations-from Pennsylvania's Perkiomen River, under whose ice he was drawn one winter night; up the Hudson's shore, west to the Ohio's falls, through Kentucky meadows (where Daniel Boone taught him how to "bark" squirrels), down a flooded Mississippi into Louisiana bayous; along Florida's keys. Always poor, Audubon...
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