Botanical companions : a memoir of plants and place / by Frieda E. Knobloch ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knobloch, Frieda.

Series:

American land and life series.

American land and life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nelson, Aven, 1859-1952.

Nelson, Aven.

Nelson, Ruth Ashton, 1896-1987.

Nelson, Ruth Ashton.

Knobloch, Frieda E--Travel--Rocky Mountains Region.

Knobloch, Frieda E.

Botanists--Wyoming--Biography.

Botanists.

Botany--Rocky Mountains Region.

Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In her luminous inquiry into the intricate connections among work, place, and people, Frieda Knobloch explores the lives of two Rocky Mountain botanists, Aven Nelson (1859-1952) and Ruth Ashton Nelson (1896-1987). Aven was a professor of botany at the University of Wyoming for many years; Ruth compiled field guides to Rocky Mountain plants and wrote articles on botany for magazines. The two met and married when Aven was in his seventies and Ruth was in her mid thirties, and they developed a symbiotic partnership that joined work and play, learning and companionship. Into this relatively s

Contents:

Contents; Foreword by Wayne Franklin; Preface and Acknowledgments; Work in Place; Specimens; Album; Letters; Habeas Corpus; Collecting; Red Desert Reprise; Notes; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182).

ISBN:

1-58729-452-4

1-58729-517-2

OCLC:

775873070