Author: PEPOON, Herman Silas
Title: H.S. Pepoon: Pioneer Conservationist of Northwest Illinois -- Essays on Ecology 1904-33
Description: Galena, IL, Prairieworks, 2011. Paperback. Compiled by Cory Ritterbusch. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. viii, 191pp. Frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Fine. Pristine second printing of the first-ever gathering of essays by this groundbreaking conservationist (1860-1941) -- boldly inscribed and signed by the compiler in black ballpoint on front flyleaf: "The _____. / The Pepoon spirit lives / on in you. / Cory." This copy with unique 19th century addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a stipple-point head-and-shoulders engraving of Pepoon's father, Captain George Washington Pepoon (1832-1915), who served in the Civil War with Company K of the 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was a noted resident of Warren, Illinois -- this sharp image from the 1889 "Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County...

Keywords: Natural History Illinois & Midwest


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