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Elliott Coues

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Elliott Coues , 1842-99, American ornithologist, b. Portsmouth, N.H., grad. Columbian College, later Columbian Univ. and now George Washington Univ. (B.A., 1861; M.D., 1863; Ph.D., 1869). He served as an army surgeon in the Civil War and as naturalist on government surveys and taught (1877-87) at Columbian Univ. He was a founder of the American Society for Psychical Research and a leader in the theosophist movement. He wrote Key to North American Birds (1872), Birds of the Northwest (1847), and Fur-bearing Animals (1877); he edited the journals of Lewis and Clark (1893), Zebulon M.... Read more
Garcés, Francisco TomáS Hermenegildo
...missionary and explorer, established missions on the Gila and Colorado rivers, and accompanied Anza to California (1774–75). He was killed by Indians. His diaries were published in Elliott Coues's On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer (2 vols., 1900). Read more
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz
...growing portfolio of illustrations to Elliott Coues, who was on the staff of the Smithsonian...Impressed by the young man's talent, Coues made Fuertes his prodigy, convinced...commissions for his work. In fact, it was Coues who gave Fuertes his first formal... Read more

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In Fine Feather, Birders Connect With Wild World
; When the young Elliott Coues first saw a scarlet tanager, the beauty...through the green foliage like a vision," Coues recalled years later. "The fiery trail...moment in his youth set the course of Coues' life. He learned everything he could... Read more
A fur trade letter of Alexander Henry 1809.(Biography)
; ...trade, not only for his accomplishments but for his detailed observations and diaries. These were published in 1897 by Elliott Coues. (1) Henry joined the North West Company (NWCo.) in 1791, trading at Whitemud River (Man.) and Fort Dauphin. He then... Read more
A list of plants observed along the lower Missouri River by the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804 and 1806.
; ...journals that included natural history and were edited by Elliott Coues, Reuben Thwaites, and Gary Moulton. This list is compared...names are compiled from three of the four major editions (Coues 1893; Moulton 1986, 1987, 1993, 1999; Thwaites 1904-1905... Read more
HOUSE SPARROW HAS BEEN MAN'S FRIEND, FOE THROUGHOUT HISTORY
; ...sparrow and its habits, good and bad. Elliott Coues, one of the preeminent ornithologists...redeeming quality." Thomas Brewer, Coues' peer and soon to be erst-while friend, responded by called Coues a liar. Henry Ward Beecher, husband... Read more
INTRODUCTION
; ...for the "loss" of the frontier buoyed their fortunes. With new editions of the explorers' journals in 1893 and 1904, Elliott Coues and Reuben Gold Thwaites reignited interest in the corps by recasting the members as intrepid frontiersmen engaged... Read more
Scholar will spend a third of his life transcribing the Lewis and Clark expedition. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
; ...volumes to the Philosophical Society, which has kept them ever since, except for sending them to Washington ornithologist Elliott Coues _ who had the audacity to write in them! _ in 1892, and to Wisconsin historian Robert Gold Thwaites, who oversaw their... Read more
ON THE TRAIL OF LEWIS AND CLARK 'THE MOST REMARKABLE CLIFTS'
; ...journals of Capts. Lewis and William Clark and other expedition members, as well as narratives from two historian-sleuths, Elliott Coues and Olin Wheeler, who retraced Lewis and Clark's steps 90 and 100 years after the 1804-1806 expedition. In the Gallatin... Read more
Travel and Exploration Narratives in the Montana Historical Society Collection
; ...Shannon worked closely with Biddle, providing first-hand knowledge and background information. Praising Biddle's work. Elliott Coues. the next editor ol the journals, wrote. "The story of this adventure stands easily first and alone. This is our national... Read more
HUNTING THROUGH BINOCULARS
; ...notable work was Florence Merriam's "Birds Through an Opera Glass" published in 1889. The powerful and respected author Elliott Coues, who helped create the first professional ornithological organization, disagreed: "The shotgun people are mostly made... Read more
A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand
; ...helplessness'. Marion died early in 1851 and MacGillivray did not long survive her, dying aged 56 on 8 September 1852. In 1880 Elliott Coues, the eminent American ornithologist, gave MacGillivray his due, writing: not to put too fine a point on it, he furnished... Read more

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