College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Bailey began her career at Smith College where she organized a chapter of the Audabon Society and got the students to boycott feathered hats. She worked mostly in the American West and Southwest; she was one of the first ornithologists to study live birds in the wild rather than museum specimens. This biography is based on her correspondence with her brother C. Hart Merriam and the ten books and numerous articles she wrote. Illustrated with photographs and map of New Mexico. Notes and bibliography. Index, xix, 225 pp. ISBN: 0-890963789.