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978-0-87195-284-4  by Barbara Olenyik Morrow

As a young girl growing up in the 1860s on a Wabash County, Indiana farm, Geneva Grace Stratton received a wondrous gift from her father, Mark, who had noticed his daughter’s love for nature and wildlife, especially the larks, cardinals, passenger pigeons, swallows, and hawks that flew overhead.  He declared that all birds on the farm belonged to her, and she was to become their protector.

From these early beginnings, Gene Stratton-Porter found a purpose for her life – sharing the outdoors with others through writing and photography and working to conserve nature for generations to come.