California's Frontier Naturalists

by Richard G. Beidleman

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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 P rouse 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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520230108

ISBN13:9780520230101

Release Date:March 2006

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:499 Pages

Weight:1.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Earth Sciences Geography History History & Philosophy Regional U.S. Science & Math

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