Download or read book Scientific Study and Exploration in Early Texas written by Samuel Wood Geiser and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific Study and Exploration in Early Texas written by Samuel Wood Geiser and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific Study and Exploration in Early Texas written by Samuel Wood Geiser and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploration and Empire written by William H. Goetzmann and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called "the Great American Desert." According to Goetzmann, the exploration of the West was not a haphazard series of discoveries, but a planned - even programmed - activity in which explorers, often armed with instructions from the federal government, gathered information that would support national goals for the new lands. As national needs and the frontier's image changed, the West itself was rediscovered by successive generations of explorers, a process that in turn helped shape its culture. Nineteenth-century western exploration, Goetzmann writes, can be divided into three stages. The first, beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, was marked by the need to collect practical information, such as the locations of the best transportation routes through the wilderness. Then came the era of settlement and investment - the drive to fulfill the Manifest Destiny of a nation beginning to realize what immense riches lay beyond the Mississippi. The final stage involved a search for knowledge of a different kind, as botanists and paleontologists, ethnographers and engineers hunted intensively for scientific information in the "frontier laboratory." This last phase also saw a rethinking of the West's place in the national scheme; it was a time of nascent conservation movements and public policy discussions aboutthe region's future. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Goetzmann offers a masterful overview of the opening of the West, as well as a fascinating study of the nature of exploration and its consequences for civilization.

Download or read book A Century of Scientific Exploration in Texas written by Samuel Wood Geiser and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Naturalists of the Frontier Second Edition written by Dr. Samuel Wood Geiser and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed study of the history of scientific exploration in the Southwest from renowned biologist Dr. Samuel Wood Geiser, first published in its present revised edition in 1948, would be of interest to many types of readers: For those who love stories, of adventure and struggle, it narrates the lives and varying fates of men who lived under strange and difficult conditions, and who met those conditions, some with heroic resolution and resourcefulness, some with fainting and failure, many with a mixture of both. These lives are presented, not in the style of the popular semi-fiction of the day, but with such accuracy as only a thorough study of many sorts of records makes possible; yet, too, with sympathy and insight into human nature throughout. For those interested in, frontier life and frontier stories this book presents an unwonted aspect of that life: the struggle for culture and for science under frontier conditions: a struggle no less heroic than that of the fighting pioneer. Naturalists of the Frontier realistically portrays the hard material conditions of frontier life, yet these are illumined by the ideals of the men who subdued those conditions. The student of the early history of the Southwest, and particularly of Texas, will find here presented unusual and significant aspects of that history. For the historian of science this book pictures the beginnings of science in a new country; it shows what science must be under frontier conditions—an examination of the resources of the region, rather than a study of underlying problems.

Download or read book Men of Science in Texas 1820 1880 written by Samuel Wood Geiser and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Journal written by Southern Methodist University. Graduate Research Center and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Century of Scientific Exploration in Texas Part I 1820 1880 An Annotated List of Naturalists who Worked in Texas Reprinted from Field and Laboratory written by Samuel Wood GEISER and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Field Laboratory written by Graduate Research Center (Dallas, Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal written by Graduate Research Center, Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia written by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Investigations in Progress in the United States in the Field of Latin American Humanistic and Social Science Studies written by Library of Congress. Hispanic Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: