# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-w-sears
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:17:39.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-w-sears"
name: "George W. Sears"
slug: "george-w-sears"
description: "George Washington Sears was an American writer for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His stories, appearing under the pen name \"Nessmuk\", popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping or ultralight backpacking."
tagline: "American environmentalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nessmuk_1873_b.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1821-12-02"
deathDate: "1890-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.492946666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Sears"
    title: "George W. Sears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جورج دبليو. سيرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Sears"
    title: "George W. Sears"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC_%DA%88%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B1%D8%B2"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョージ・ワシントン・シアーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Сирс, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5545744"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump