King of the 40th Parallel : Discovery in the American West

Moore, James Gregory

Stanford University Press（2006/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 416 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780804752220
• DDC分類 551.092

Full Description

This book recounts the life and achievements of Clarence King, widely recognized as one of America's most gifted intellectuals of the nineteenth century, and a legendary figure in the American West. King's genius, singular accomplishments, and near-death adventures unfold in a narrative centered on his personal relationship with his lifelong friend and colleague, James Gardner. The two, upon completing their studies at Yale, traveled by wagon train across the continent and worked with the California Geological Survey. King went on to establish the Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, a government mapping program that stretched across the western mountain chains from California to Wyoming. This was the precursor to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Founded in 1879, with Clarence King as its architect and first director, the USGS became the most important and influential science agency in the nation.

The adventurous aspects of conducting geological fieldwork in the West, much of them documented by letters written by King and Gardner, punctuate a book copiously illustrated with historic maps and photographs showing localities and people important to the story.

Contents

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Foreword, by Charles Groat iii Preface, by William Glen iii Acknowledgments iii List of Abbreviations iii @toc2:Introduction: A Bird of Paradise 1 1 A Youthful Alliance 00 2 Ablebodied Men 00 3 Gold and Guns 000 4 Almost Inaccessible to Man 00 5 Grand Cold Fury of the Sierra 000 6 Mirage and Blizzard 000 7 Fever on the Desert 000 8 True Ice and False Summit 000 9 An Unparalleled Fraud 000 10 Pushed with the Utmost Vigor 000 11 Rocky Triangulation 000 12 A Grand Fusion 000 13 Epilogue 000 @toc4:Appendixes 000 Notes 000 References Cited 000