Author: Gideon Lincecum
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The life and times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum.
Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist
Author: Gideon Lincecum
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The life and times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The life and times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum.
California's Frontier Naturalists
Author: Richard G. Beidleman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520230108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
"In California's Frontier Naturalists, Richard Beidleman has eloquently chronicled the history of explorations and discovery that revealed the grand legacy of California's biodiversity. More than just a series of scholarly essays about naturalists, collections, and species, this book provides lively insight into the motivation that lured diverse naturalists to California's 'natural cornucopia', their personalities, their remarkable experiences, and their lasting contributions."—Dieter Wilken, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520230108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
"In California's Frontier Naturalists, Richard Beidleman has eloquently chronicled the history of explorations and discovery that revealed the grand legacy of California's biodiversity. More than just a series of scholarly essays about naturalists, collections, and species, this book provides lively insight into the motivation that lured diverse naturalists to California's 'natural cornucopia', their personalities, their remarkable experiences, and their lasting contributions."—Dieter Wilken, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Elliott Coues
Author: Paul Russell Cutright
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069871
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Best known as the author of the pioneering Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues (1842-99) was one of America's most renowned but least understood ornithologists and historians-as well as a naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, Army surgeon on the American frontier, occultist, and the youngest person ever to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Now available in paperback, this comprehensive biography of a brilliant, ambitious, and phenomenally productive man ranks as the definitive life of Elliott Coues.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069871
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Best known as the author of the pioneering Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues (1842-99) was one of America's most renowned but least understood ornithologists and historians-as well as a naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, Army surgeon on the American frontier, occultist, and the youngest person ever to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Now available in paperback, this comprehensive biography of a brilliant, ambitious, and phenomenally productive man ranks as the definitive life of Elliott Coues.
Science on the Texas Frontier
Author: Gideon Lincecum
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890967904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Contains selections from the letters and scientific writings of Dr. Gideon Lincecum about the things he observed while he was studying nature in Texas.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890967904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Contains selections from the letters and scientific writings of Dr. Gideon Lincecum about the things he observed while he was studying nature in Texas.
Steller's Island
Author: Dean Littlepage
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9781594850578
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
History, adventure, and science-the 18th century naturalist, Georg Steller, sailed to the north coast of North America and introduced its biological wonders to the world.
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9781594850578
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
History, adventure, and science-the 18th century naturalist, Georg Steller, sailed to the north coast of North America and introduced its biological wonders to the world.
Glorious Time
Author: Tom Benjey
Publisher: The University of Montana Press, distributed by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 0990974898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Tom Benjey's Glorious Times tells the fascinating and important story of an American clan of Scots-Irish that settled in the early 1700s in Pennsylvania. From this clan came an astonishing number exceptional people, many of whom dedicated their lives to nature. This book even poses the question as to whether this family had a special "Naturalist DNA". It covers many generations, but appropriately focuses most attention on the famous siblings Frank Jr., John, and Jean (Craighead George).
Publisher: The University of Montana Press, distributed by Farcountry Press
ISBN: 0990974898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Tom Benjey's Glorious Times tells the fascinating and important story of an American clan of Scots-Irish that settled in the early 1700s in Pennsylvania. From this clan came an astonishing number exceptional people, many of whom dedicated their lives to nature. This book even poses the question as to whether this family had a special "Naturalist DNA". It covers many generations, but appropriately focuses most attention on the famous siblings Frank Jr., John, and Jean (Craighead George).
Pushmataha
Author: Gideon Lincecum
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817351159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
"In "Choctaw Traditions about Their Settlement in Mississippi and the Origin of Their Mounds," Lincecum translates a portion of the Skukhaanumpula - the traditional history of the tribe, which was related to him verbally by Chata Immataha, "the oldest man in the world, a man that knew everything." It explains how and why the sacred Manih Waya mound was erected and how the Choctaws formed new towns, and it describes the structure of leadership in their society."--Jacket.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817351159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
"In "Choctaw Traditions about Their Settlement in Mississippi and the Origin of Their Mounds," Lincecum translates a portion of the Skukhaanumpula - the traditional history of the tribe, which was related to him verbally by Chata Immataha, "the oldest man in the world, a man that knew everything." It explains how and why the sacred Manih Waya mound was erected and how the Choctaws formed new towns, and it describes the structure of leadership in their society."--Jacket.
Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874
Author: Lois Wood Burkhalter
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292791658
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
In Gideon Lincecum's lifetime the United States expanded from fifteen to thirty-eight states—and Lincecum moved always with or ahead of that expansion. Possessed of a driving intellectual curiosity undeterred by lack of formal education, Lincecum examined all he confronted. He learned from Indians, he read widely, and he corresponded with the great minds of his day. In the process he became many things: physician, musician, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, and translator of Indian dialects. His collection of information and specimens in the field of natural science was used by leading authorities. From his voluminous letters, Mrs. Burkhalter has constructed a picture of a "remarkable and delightful American who deserves a place in the history of this country."
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292791658
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
In Gideon Lincecum's lifetime the United States expanded from fifteen to thirty-eight states—and Lincecum moved always with or ahead of that expansion. Possessed of a driving intellectual curiosity undeterred by lack of formal education, Lincecum examined all he confronted. He learned from Indians, he read widely, and he corresponded with the great minds of his day. In the process he became many things: physician, musician, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, and translator of Indian dialects. His collection of information and specimens in the field of natural science was used by leading authorities. From his voluminous letters, Mrs. Burkhalter has constructed a picture of a "remarkable and delightful American who deserves a place in the history of this country."
Women of the Frontier
Author: Brandon Marie Miller
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 161374000X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 161374000X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West.
The American Jungle
Author: Harvey E. Oyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981703602
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Children's adventure stories based on actual people, places and events on the south Florida frontier during the late 19th century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981703602
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Children's adventure stories based on actual people, places and events on the south Florida frontier during the late 19th century.