Fact 1
According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Henry David Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay.
Fact 2
By the turn of the 20th century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right.
Fact 3
He was regarded as the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own.
was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States
was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist
Was the second president of America, widely famous because of several historical events that marked his presidency
Is a state in the United States and is located in the Midwestern region.
Is a hugely popular American film, stage and television actor.
Is considered to be the most renowned Shakespearean actor in the history of cinema.
Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States
An American physician and innovator in studying the Earth's history.
Is one of the most respected and revered actors in Hollywood history