Research Catalog

Title

Trails to Tiburón : the 1894 and 1895 field diaries of W J McGee / transcribed by Hazel McFeely Fontana ; annotated and with an introduction by Bernard L. Fontana.

Author

McGee, W J, 1853-1912.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fontana, Bernard L.

Description

xxx, 168 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"When William John McGee set out from Washington, D.C., for the Sonoran Desert in 1894, he was inspired by a passion for adventure as much as a thirst for knowledge. McGee lived in an era when discovery was made through travel rather than study, and reputations were forged by going where no outsiders had gone before." "A self-taught scientist in the newly forming field of anthropology, McGee led two expeditions through southern Arizona and northern Sonora for the Bureau of American Ethnology. There he conducted ethnographic research among the Papagos (Tohono O'odham) and the Seris, and his subsequent publication The Seri Indians helped secure his place in the anthropological community."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Southwest Center series

Uniform Title

Southwest Center series.

Subject

• McGee, W J, 1853-1912 > Diaries
• McGee, W J, 1853-1912
• Tohono O'odham Indians
• Seri Indians
• Travel
• Tiburón Island (Mexico) > Description and travel
• Mexico > Tiburón Island

Genre/Form

• Diary
• diaries.
• Diaries.
• Tagebuch.
• Journaux intimes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-160) and index.
• "Works by W J Mc Gee": p. [111]-125.

Contents

Papago Trip, 1894 -- Second Expedition, Papago-Seri, 1895 -- App. A. Papago Vocabulary from Jose Lewis -- App. B. Papago Vocabulary and Interview Notes -- App. C. Marine Flooding of the Sonora-Bacuache Delta Area / Ronald L. Ives -- App. D. Works / W.J. McGee.

ISBN

• 0816520305
• 9780816520305

LCCN

99006917

OCLC

• ocm42428992
• 42428992
• SCSB-1208651

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library