George Olin

Born in Luverne, Minnesota, in 1907, George Olin was a naturalist and writer whose life was closely tied to the outdoors. A bookseller listing for Mammals of the Southwest Mountains and Mesas describes him as someone who spent most of his life outside and says that, from 1947 on, he lived almost continuously in the deserts of the American Southwest.

He is best known for Mammals of the Southwest Mountains and Mesas, a work centered on the wildlife of that region. The picture that emerges from the available sources is of an author deeply interested in desert landscapes and in the careful study of animals in their natural habitats.

Reliable biographical information about Olin appears to be limited online, so some details of his life and career are still hard to confirm from readily available sources.