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G. O. (George O.) Shields
1846–1925
An energetic voice from America’s late-19th-century outdoor world, he wrote vivid hunting and travel books and helped shape one of the country’s earliest recreation magazines. He is also remembered for pushing hunters and anglers toward wildlife conservation at a time when that idea was still taking hold.
2 Audiobooks
Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing
by G. O. (George O.) Shields
About the author
Born in 1846, George Oliver Shields was an American writer, editor, and outdoorsman who often published as Coquina. He became widely known through books about hunting, fishing, and travel in the American West, including works such as Rustlings in the Rockies and Cruisings in the Cascades.
Shields was also the editor of Recreation, an influential magazine devoted to outdoor sports. Through that work, he reached a large readership of hunters, anglers, and travelers, and he became one of the notable public voices linking outdoor sport with the need to protect wildlife.
Although many of his writings reflect the attitudes of his era, his career helps show how American outdoor culture was changing around the turn of the 20th century. He died in 1925, leaving behind a body of writing that connects adventure, sport, publishing, and early conservation.