![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I… was born on the Great Plains and was drawn almost mesmerically into its rougher margins, the Wild Cat Hills and the Badlands, where bone hunting was a way of life. But his Nebraska years were a well upon which he drew for his literary works. ![]() He would go on to hold faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, write 16 books, and receive more than 35 honorary degrees and awards before his death in 1977. He studied anthropology and paleontology at the University of Nebraska, wrote for the Prairie Schooner and hunted for bones in the Wildcat Hills with the State Museum’s South Party. Eiseley may even prove to be a modern shaman as he calls for us to remember our roots and seek our “sacred center” in nature.īorn in 1907, Eiseley’s childhood was spent exploring the streets and storm sewers of Lincoln and the prairie grasses and wildflowers of the surrounding countryside. Now, more than ever, his message about humankind’s relationship to the environment is relevant in light of global warming, pollution, population growth, and resource depletion. Many of Eiseley’s stories in the books that won him international fame originated with experience he laid away in his early years in Nebraska. Loren Eiseley once likened the brain of a writer to an attic that stores pictures from the past-pictures that are later recalled and woven into story. (Loren Eiseley Society/University of Pennsylvania Archives) South Party group picture, from left: Bert Schultz, Mylan Stout, Emery Blue, Robert Long, Loren Eiseley, Eugene Vanderpool, Frank Crabill. ![]()
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