California's frontier naturalists:
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Main Author: Beidleman, Richard G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press 2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Prelude -- Part One 183; The Oceanic Expeditions -- Part Two 183; The Early Peripatetic Naturalists -- Part Three 183; The Overland Expeditions and Their Naturalists -- Part Four 183; Iron Horses and River Steamers: The 1850s Surveys -- Part Five 183; The California Geological Survey -- Part Six 183; Institutions and Naturalists -- Part Seven 183; The Postwar Naturalists -- Postlude: The End of Californias Frontier -- Selected References -- Index
This book chronicles the fascinating story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to California's spectacular natural bounty over the decades from 1786, when the La Prouse Expedition arrived at Monterey, to the Death Valley expedition in 1890-91, the proclaimed "end" of the American frontier. Richard G. Beidleman's engaging and marvelously detailed narrative describes these botanists, zoologists, geologists, paleontologists, astronomers, and ethnologists as they camped under stars and faced blizzards, made discoveries and amassed collections, kept journals and
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
ISBN:0520230108
0520927508
128235633X
1423745418
1598759213
9780520230101
9780520927506
9781282356337
9781423745419
9781598759211

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