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John James Audubon - Wikipedia

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order info excerpt: The handsome, excitable eighteen-year-old Frenchman who would become John James Audubon had already lived his way through two names when he landed in New York from Nantes in August 1803. His father Jean, a canny sh

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order info excerpt: As the summer of 1821 began, John James Audubon's ambition to create a comprehensive pictorial record of American birds was still largely a dream. Then, out of economic necessity, Audubon came to Oakley Plantation

Oakley House, a plantation home where the famous naturalist John James Audubon once worked as a tutor. It is situated in a lush natural setting, with a variety of birds singing throughout the 100-acre forest. In 1821, Audubon came upriver fr

Geographic tangent: See: Avondale House in St. Francisville, Louisiana ... Sewell, Sugg, Lansing, Boogaerts connections ... proximity to Oakley House

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