California's frontier naturalists /
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 &...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
2006.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp3z0 |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520927506 0520927508 1423745418 9781423745419 9786612356339 6612356332 1598759213 9781598759211 9780520230101 0520230108 128235633X 9781282356337 |