Early American Naturalists Exploring the American West, 1804-1900
by Moring, JohnEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-08-14
Publisher(s): Cooper Square Press
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Summary
This is a record of the lives, adventures, and discoveries of pioneering American naturalists and conservationists.
Author Biography
John Moring (1946-2002), professor of zoology at the University of Maine
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| The Early Naturalists | p. 1 |
| Traveling in the Wild Lands | |
| Lewis and Clark: Enthusiastic Amateurs | p. 9 |
| Peter Custis and the Red River Expedition | p. 29 |
| Thomas Nuttall and the Wilderness Collectors | p. 48 |
| Thomas Say and Edwin James: The Long Expedition | p. 69 |
| Visitors from Europe | p. 89 |
| Collectors and Interpreters | |
| Wilkes's "Scientifics" | p. 111 |
| The Painter | p. 124 |
| In the Field before the Great War | p. 136 |
| Collecting the West | p. 160 |
| The New Naturalists | |
| Martha Maxwell and Her Museum | p. 171 |
| John Muir and the New Naturalists | p. 187 |
| Digging Up Bones | p. 201 |
| The New Enthusiastic Amateurs | p. 217 |
| Further Reading | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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