Early American naturalists : exploring the American West, 1804-1900 / John Moring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moring, John, 1946-

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naturalists--United States--Biography.

Naturalists.

Natural history.

History.

United States.

Natural history--West (U.S.)--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Cooper Square Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cooper Square Press, 2002.

Summary:

This history records the lives, adventures, and discoveries of pioneering American naturalists and conservationists -- including Lewis and Clark, Thomas Say, Martha Maxwell, John James Audubon, and John Muir -- who wandered purposefully through the fresh American wilderness with pen and ink in hand to sketch and to write about the natural wonders that they encountered. Early American Naturalists offers a gripping celebration of these unique and eloquent trailblazers as they boldly navigate and document the then-untrammeled and awe-inspiring frontier west of the Mississippi.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Early Naturalists 1

Part 1 Traveling in the Wild Lands

Chapter 2 Lewis and Clark: Enthusiastic Amateurs 9

Chapter 3 Peter Custis and the Red River Expedition 29

Chapter 4 Thomas Nuttall and the Wilderness Collectors 48

Chapter 5 Thomas Say and Edwin James: The Long Expedition 69

Chapter 6 Visitors from Europe 89

Part 2 Collectors and Interpreters

Chapter 7 Wilkes's "Scientifics" 111

Chapter 8 The Painter 124

Chapter 9 In the Field before the Great War 136

Chapter 10 Collecting the West 160

Part 3 The New Naturalists

Chapter 11 Martha Maxwell and Her Museum 171

Chapter 12 John Muir and the New Naturalists 187

Chapter 13 Digging Up Bones 201

Chapter 14 The New Enthusiastic Amateurs 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0815412363

OCLC:

49260797