Thomas R. Dunlap - In the Field, Among the Feathered: A History of Birders & Their Guides

The History Department and the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University provided me a fine situation in which to work, and I thank them, and my department head, Dr. Walter Buenger. For an uninterrupted year in which to writea precious commodity indeedI thank the National Science Foundation for its support under SES grant 0550268, and Dr. Ronald Rainger, the project officer who steered the proposal from rough idea to clear application. During the writing I had what I have come to think of as my usual conversations with Bill Cronon. This book would not have been the same without his friendship, advice, and analysis. I shared birding field trips with Kurk Dorsey at the American Society for Environmental History, and he reviewed the manuscript. I tried out my ideas on far too many friends to mention each by name, but they all have my deep thanks.

Like all researchers I rely on archives, and I thank the following not only for permissions but also for staff assistance, invariably friendly and helpful: the Wisconsin State Historical Society for a copy of my taped interview with Joseph J. Hickey; the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York, for access to Petersons extensive correspondence, library, and specimen collection; the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley, California, for its correspondence files, which I have been using for research for more than twenty years; the American Museum of Natural History in New York for the correspondence of Frank M. Chapman; the Cornell University Library for access to the Ludlow Griscom Papers; and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut for the Edwin Way Teale Papers. I also thank the editorial team at Oxford University Press for the alchemy that turns manuscript into book, with my special thanks to Susan Ferber, whose editorial talents forced me to sharpen my ideas and improved my expression of them. Errors and remaining infelicities are all my own.

Birders, naturally, want to know if I am one of them. By hard-core standards, no. I began with the standard childs guide of the postwar years, Gabrielson and Zims little Golden Guide, Birds, went on to Moms Peterson, and have at least one guide to every country I have ever visited. Birds fascinate me far more than listing does, though, and while out birding I am happy to be distracted by snakes, turtles, frogs, regrowth in burned-off pastures, and almost any other evidence of the changing world around us.

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