Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian

by Michael J. Brodhead, Paul Russell Cutright, Michael J Brodhead

Book Overview

"Best known as the author of the pioneering Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues (1842-99) was one of America's most renowned but least understood ornithologists and historians-as well as a naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, Army surgeon on the American frontier, occultist, and the youngest person ever to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Now available in paperback, this comprehensive biography of a brilliant, ambitious, and phenomenally productive man ranks as the definitive life of Elliott Coues."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252069870
• ISBN13: 9780252069871
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"