Mapping the Four Corners

Name: Mapping the Four Corners
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
SKU: 9780806169217
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Szerző: Robert S McPherson, Susan Rhoades Neel

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Kiadó: University of Oklahoma Press

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In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hay...

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Szerző

Robert S McPherson, Susan Rhoades Neel

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2021

oldal

304

EAN

9780806169217

ISBN

0806169214

Enbook ID

35514387

Kiadó

University of Oklahoma Press

Súly

466

Méretek

227 x 152 x 23

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In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors' diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the team's experiences, contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion.

Accompanied by the great photographer William Henry Jackson, Hayden's team quickly found their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water. Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery-Hispanic villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant dispossession from their homeland.

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