Chapter ID: CBB001210267

Field Life in the American West: Surveys, Networks, Stations, and Quarries (2012)

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Vetter, Jeremy (Author)


Pages: 225--258
Publication date: 2012
Language: English


Description On 19th- and early-20th-century surveys.


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Book Nielsen, Kristian H.; Harbsmeier, Michael; Ries, Christopher J. (2012) Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Azara, Francesca
Carlson, Laurie Winn
Cox, Thomas R.
Effland, Anne B. W.
Hébert, John R.
Inglis, Robin
Journals
Agricultural History
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Cartographica Helvetica
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
Purdue University (Lafayette, Indiana)
Oregon State University Press
Oxford University Press
Scarecrow Press
The Historic New Orleans Collection
University of Oklahoma Press
Concepts
Cartography
Travel; exploration
Surveying
Science and government
Maps; atlases
Geology
People
Pike, Zebulon
Clark, William
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer
Humboldt, Alexander von
Penn, Thomas
Spillman, William Jasper
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
16th century
Places
United States
North America
Colorado (U.S.)
Louisiana (U.S.)
New Mexico (U.S.)
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Institutions
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Observatório Nacional (Brazil)
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