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Virginia Louise Snyder Eifert (January 23, 1911 - June 16, 1966) was a naturalist, nature writer and popular historian based in the U.S. state of Illinois during the early 20th century. Throughout the course of her career Eifert published 18 books, 8 booklets, and numerous scholarly articles from a staff base in the Illinois State Museum. Commentary on Eifert's person and writing paint a picture of her best described as an energetic and enigmatic lover of the wild who wrote in vivid prose and was impassioned with a love for the wild early on in her life that lasted throughout her entire career. Her works included several holistic natural histories of the Mississippi River and a biography of early river chronicler Louis Jolliet, among many others including a multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln written for children. Published in the 1950s, the first volume of Three Rivers South : The Story of Young Abe Lincoln was illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton.As a writer for periodicals, Eifert was published in Audubon Magazine, Nature, and Natural History. Her papers were donated to Western Illinois University. (From Wikipedia)

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