A Young Man of Promise: The Flower of the Family: James Marsh Read 1833-1865

by Gretchen Howe Miller

This book is a collection of letters written by James Marsh Read (1833-1865) to his family in Winooski, Vermont and their replies to him. After graduation from the University of Vermont, he joined a US Geological Survey team that spent three years in Texas and New Mexico trying to find underground water to facilitate travel to California. Fascinated by the desert, enthusiastic about all he was learning, he writes to parents, sisters and brothers about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1418464813
• ISBN13: 9781418464813
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.9"