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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beidleman, Richard G. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press 2006.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp3z0