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This history is the first to detail the lives, adventures, and discoveries of pioneering American naturalists such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
| Preface | p. ix |
| The Early Naturalists | p. 1 |
| Traveling in the Wild Lands | |
| Lewis and Clark: Enthusiastic Amateurs | p. 9 |
| Peter Custis and the Red River Expedition | p. 29 |
| Thomas Nuttall and the Wilderness Collectors | p. 48 |
| Thomas Say and Edwin James: The Long Expedition | p. 69 |
| Visitors from Europe | p. 89 |
| Collectors and Interpreters | |
| Wilkes's "Scientifics" | p. 111 |
| The Painter | p. 124 |
| In the Field before the Great War | p. 136 |
| Collecting the West | p. 160 |
| The New Naturalists | |
| Martha Maxwell and Her Museum | p. 171 |
| John Muir and the New Naturalists | p. 187 |
| Digging Up Bones | p. 201 |
| The New Enthusiastic Amateurs | p. 217 |
| Further Reading | p. 227 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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ISBN: 9781589791831
ISBN-10: 1589791835
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 260
Published: May 2005
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Dimensions (cm): 22.0 x 16.0
x 1.6
Weight (kg): 0.34
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