Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 Volume 83

by Susan Rhoades Neel, Robert S. McPherson, McPherson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806169214
• ISBN13: 9780806169217
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"