Frontier Naturalist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontier Naturalist write by Russell M. Lawson. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Frontier Naturalist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War. In 1826, when the story begins, the region was claimed by both Mexico and the United States. Neither country knew much about the lands crossed by such rivers as the Guadalupe, Brazos, Nueces, Trinity, and Rio Grande. Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, was part of a team sent out by the Mexican Boundary Commission to explore the area. His role was to collect specimens of flora and fauna and to record detailed observations of the landscapes and peoples through which the exploring party traveled. His observations, including sketches and paintings of plants, landmarks, and American Indians, were the first compendium of scientific observations of the region to be collected and eventually published. Here, historian Russell Lawson tells the story of this multinational expedition, using Berlandier’s copious records as a way of conveying his view of the natural environment. Lawson’s narrative allows us to peer over Berlandier’s shoulder as he traveled and recorded his experiences. Berlandier and Lawson show us an America that no longer exists.
Naturalists of the Frontier [Second Edition]
Naturalists of the Frontier [Second Edition] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naturalists of the Frontier [Second Edition] write by Dr. Samuel Wood Geiser. This book was released on 2018-03-12. Naturalists of the Frontier [Second Edition] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This acclaimed study of the history of scientific exploration in the Southwest from renowned biologist Dr. Samuel Wood Geiser, first published in its present revised edition in 1948, would be of interest to many types of readers: For those who love stories, of adventure and struggle, it narrates the lives and varying fates of men who lived under strange and difficult conditions, and who met those conditions, some with heroic resolution and resourcefulness, some with fainting and failure, many with a mixture of both. These lives are presented, not in the style of the popular semi-fiction of the day, but with such accuracy as only a thorough study of many sorts of records makes possible; yet, too, with sympathy and insight into human nature throughout. For those interested in, frontier life and frontier stories this book presents an unwonted aspect of that life: the struggle for culture and for science under frontier conditions: a struggle no less heroic than that of the fighting pioneer. Naturalists of the Frontier realistically portrays the hard material conditions of frontier life, yet these are illumined by the ideals of the men who subdued those conditions. The student of the early history of the Southwest, and particularly of Texas, will find here presented unusual and significant aspects of that history. For the historian of science this book pictures the beginnings of science in a new country; it shows what science must be under frontier conditions—an examination of the resources of the region, rather than a study of underlying problems.
Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist
Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist write by Gideon Lincecum. This book was released on 1994. Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The life and times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum.
Frontier Naturalist
Frontier Naturalist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontier Naturalist write by Russell M. Lawson. This book was released on 2012. Frontier Naturalist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War. In 1826, when the story begins, the region was claimed by both Mexico and the United States. Neither country knew much about the lands crossed by such rivers as the Guadalupe, Brazos, Nueces, Trinity, and Rio Grande. Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, was part of a team sent out by the Mexican Boundary Commission to explore the area. His role was to collect specimens of flora and fauna and to record detailed observations of the landscapes and peoples through which the exploring party traveled. His observations, including sketches and paintings of plants, landmarks, and American Indians, were the first compendium of scientific observations of the region to be collected and eventually published. Here, historian Russell Lawson tells the story of this multinational expedition, using Berlandier's copious records as a way of conveying his view of the natural environment. Lawson's narrative allows us to peer over Berlandier's shoulder as he traveled and recorded his experiences. Berlandier and Lawson show us an America that no longer exists.
Naturalists of the Frontier
Naturalists of the Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naturalists of the Frontier write by Samuel Wood Geiser. This book was released on 1948. Naturalists of the Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Table of contents: The naturalist on the frontier.--Jacob Boll.--In defense of Jean Louis Berlandier.--Thomas Drummond.--Audubon in Texas.--Louis Cachand Ervendberg.--Ferdinand Jakob Lindheimer.--Ferdinand Roemer and his travels in Texas.--Charles Wright.--Gideon Lincecum.--Julien Reverchon.--Gustaf Wilhelm Belfrage.--Notes on scientists of the first frontier.--Principal sources of the foregoing chapters (p. 264-269)--A partial list of naturalists and collectors in Texas, 1820-1880.--Incomplete list of the author's publications on the history of science in early Texas (p. 285-288).
