This article from the Thoreau Socy website compares HDT and JJA early travels in the forests of Maine. They were contemporaries who never met altho Thoreau examined a display of "Birds of North America" to learn and correct some bird names. Thoreau's book "The Maine Woods" was published posthumously. Audubon collected and painted birds in Maine (e.g. Spruce Grouse). He also meets Tom Lincoln who will accompany him on his later expedition to Labrador and for whom he names Lincoln's Sparrow.
Thoreau travelled by train and river boat to MN in 1861. He spent one month in "St Anthony", on Nicollet Island, and on the shore of L Calhoun. He also steamed up the MN River to Fort Ridgley. During this time he botanized extensively and also made note of a lot of the birds, including small colonies of nesting Passenger Pigeons in today's "metro area". http://www.thoreausociety.org/news-article/audubons-maine-woods-c-john-burk ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
