Mapping the Four Corners

Name: Mapping the Four Corners
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
SKU: 9780806169217
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Автор: Robert S McPherson, Susan Rhoades Neel

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Издател: University of Oklahoma Press

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In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hay...

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Автор

Robert S McPherson, Susan Rhoades Neel

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2021

страници

304

EAN

9780806169217

ISBN

0806169214

Enbook ID

35514387

Издател

University of Oklahoma Press

Теглоt

466

Размери

227 x 152 x 23

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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, historians Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the team's experiences, contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion.

Accompanied by the great photographer William Henry Jackson, Hayden's team quickly found their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water. Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery-Hispanic villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant dispossession from their homeland.

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