Audubon/Au-du-bon: Man and Artist

This article highlights some of the works of the legendary work of John James Audubon, drawn from the collection located in Syracuse University\u27s Special Collections. The author gives special attention to the 1820-21 journal of his voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi (which has been preserved intact), the English and Scottish journal of 1826 (also in its original form), and the descriptive sketches of early pioneer life in the Ornithological Biography. These early journal sources dramatically reveal, at first hand, Audubon\u27s long struggle through many failures and obstacles to win the success and recognition he craved and also enduring status as a distinctively American artist