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A-Birding on a Bronco is a classic outdoor adventure story by Florence A. Merriam that tells an engaging account of the author's birding adventures on horseback through the California late 19th century countryside. The trials of covering the distance via beasts of burden are... Read Full Overview

A bracing, wry voyage through the american west, A-Birding On A Bronco invites you to ride along with a keen-eyed naturalist who finds wonder in trenching dust, sage, and song. It is travel writing with a heartbeat: humorous, human, and full of nature's small revelations on a... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

A-Birding On A Bronco is a book written by Florence A. Merriam Bailey and published in 1896. The book is a memoir of the author's experiences birdwatching in the American West in the late 1800s. Bailey describes her travels on horseback through the rugged terrain of the western... Read Full Overview

A-Birding On A Bronco is a book written by Florence A. Merriam Bailey and published in 1896. The book is a memoir of the author's experiences bird-watching in the American West during the late 19th century. The title refers to the author's method of traveling on horseback (a... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

A-Birding on a Bronco is a classic bird watching/nature text by Florence A. Merriam that details the authors birding adventures through the State of California on horseback. This charming nature volume includes the following excerpt: "CLIMB the mountain back of the house and... Read Full Overview

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete... Read Full Overview

Book Excerptrted uneasily and wanted to get out of the way. Down over our heads, and then high up in the air, he would swing back and forth in an arc. One day he must have shot at us half a dozen times, and another day, over a spot in the brush near us, --probably, where the... Read Full Overview

The notes contained in this book were taken from March to May, 1889, and from March to July, 1894, at Twin Oaks in southern California. Twin Oaks is the post-office for the scattered ranch-houses in a small valley at the foot of one of the Coast Ranges, thirty-four miles north... Read Full Overview

Trailblazing ornithologist Florence A. Merriam's classic firsthand account of her adventurous and influential field work through Southern California on horseback, first published in 1896.

A-Birding on a Bronco is Florence A. Merriam's enduring... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview