In 1895, a naturalist built a bark-covered cabin in the New York woods to escape visitors and write in solitude; after his death, it became the heart of a 170-acre wildlife sanctuary

John Burroughs had become popular enough by 1895, and visitors were disrupting the quiet he needed to write. His answer was a small cabin in the woods near his West Park, New York, home.

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