TY  - GEN
T1  - California's frontier naturalists
A1  - Beidleman, Richard G.
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm62865850
AB  - 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
CN  - QH105.C2 B45 2006eb
SN  - 9780520927506
SN  - 0520927508
SN  - 1423745418
SN  - 9781423745419
SN  - 9786612356339
SN  - 6612356332
SN  - 1598759213
SN  - 9781598759211
SN  - 9780520230101
SN  - 0520230108
SN  - 128235633X
SN  - 9781282356337
KW  - Natural history : California.
KW  - Scientific expeditions : California.
KW  - Naturalists : California : History.
KW  - Sciences naturelles : Californie.
KW  - Expéditions scientifiques : Californie.
KW  - Naturalistes : Californie : Histoire.
KW  - NATURE : Essays.
KW  - NATURE : Reference.
KW  - TRAVEL : Special Interest : Ecotourism.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Naturalists
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - California
KW  - american west.
KW  - botany.
KW  - boundary surveys.
KW  - california.
KW  - david douglas.
KW  - death valley.
KW  - expedition.
KW  - explorers.
KW  - fieldwork.
KW  - frontier.
KW  - geological survey.
KW  - geology.
KW  - john fremont.
KW  - la perouse.
KW  - land development.
KW  - land management.
KW  - mexican war.
KW  - monterey.
KW  - natural sciences.
KW  - natural world.
KW  - naturalism.
KW  - naturalist.
KW  - nature.
KW  - nonfiction.
KW  - pacific northwest.
KW  - paleontology.
KW  - paolo botta.
KW  - plants.
KW  - railroads.
KW  - richard hinds.
KW  - sara lemmon.
KW  - science.
KW  - scientists.
KW  - settling the west.
KW  - thomas nuttall.
KW  - united states.
KW  - wild west.
KW  - wilderness.
KW  - william brewer.
KW  - zoology.
KW  - History
ER  -