Research Catalog

Title

Edward Palmer, plant explorer of the American West.

Author

McVaugh, Rogers, 1909-2009

Publication

Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1956]

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Holdings

Details

Description

xvii, 430 p. illus., ports., maps, facsims.; 24 cm.

Summary

The life of Edward Palmer during second half of 19th century, focusing on his pioneering fieldwork as a naturalist in the american west, many maps, diagrams, likely the definitive professional biography of Palmer, the great American naturalist and collector, who collected over 100,000 plants as well as thousands of archaeological, ethnological and zoological items throughout Mexico, Texas, Florida and the American west. Appendices include chronology of his plant collections and locations, field notes, herbaria known to have plants he collected.

Subject

• Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911
• Western World
• Botany
• Plant collectors > United States > Biography
• Botany > West (U.S.) > History
• Botany > Mexico > History
• Mexico

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p. 403-420) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The First Years -- Early Life in America, 1849-59 -- Colorado and the Civil War, 1859-65 -- Frontier Posts in Arizona, 1865-67 -- Indian Territory, 1868 -- Arizona, Utah, and Sonora, 1869-70 -- Interlude, 1871-73 -- Florida and the Bahamas, 1874 -- Guadalupe Island and the Southwest, 1875-77 -- To San Luis Potosi with Parry, 1878 -- Texas and Northern Mexico, 1879-80 -- Work for the Bureau of Ethnology, 1881-84 -- Three Trips to Mexico, 1885-87 -- Collecting for the Department of Agriculture, 1888-93 -- The Last Years, 1894-1911.

LCCN

^^^56011234^//r85

OCLC

• 1013429
• SCSB-10210490

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library