California's Frontier Naturalists

by Richard G. Beidleman

Book Overview

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"