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Return to: "Margaret E. Murie, Grandmother of American Conservation - Margaret E. (Thomas) Murie, America's "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement," was born into a polished, well-educated Seattle family."

Arctic Dance book cover

Two in the Far North book cover

Many wilderness treks

Margaret Thomas and Olaus Murie married

First woman graduate of the Alaska Agricultural College

Nine-year-old Mardy Thomas and her mother arrived in Fairbanks in 1911