Early American Naturalists: Exploring the American West, 1804-1900 - Paperback

by John Moring (Author)

This history is the first to detail the lives, adventures, and discoveries of pioneering American naturalists such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Martha Maxwell, Spencer Baird, Asa Gray, John Torrey, Florence bailey, John Burroughs, and John Muir. From discovering new species to discovering prehistoric fossils, Early American Naturalists celebrates these intrepid trailblazers who boldly navigated and documented the untrammeled, awe-inspiring frontier west of the Mississippi.

Author Biography

John Moring (1946-2002) was professor of zoology at the University of Maine and author of Men with Sand: Great Explorers of the American West.