Vernon Bailey : writings of a field naturalist on the frontier /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Schmidly, David J., 1943- (Autor), Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
Colección:Integrative natural history series.
Temas:
Bailey, Vernon, > 1864-1942 > Correspondence.
Bailey, Vernon, > 1864-1942
Naturalists > United States > Biography.
Naturalists > United States > Correspondence.
Mammalogists > United States > Biography.
Mammalogists > United States > Correspondence.
Natural history > United States > History.
Naturalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Naturalistes > États-Unis > Correspondance.
Mammalogistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Mammalogistes > États-Unis > Correspondance.
Sciences naturelles > États-Unis > Histoire.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
Mammalogists
Natural history
Naturalists
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Personal correspondence
Biographies.
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  • Introduction and background
  • Section I: The Bailey family history
  • Early family history: from blacksmithing to Bailey Station (1637-1864)
  • Iron Creek baby (1864-1872)
  • Life around the Bailey homestead
  • Wildlife and hunting around the homestead
  • Schooling and the making of a naturalist
  • Specimens and trapping talk (1886-1887)
  • Section II: Working for Merriam and the US Government
  • Employment and a field trip
  • Dear folks at home
  • Grand collecting country: Dakota Territory
  • Full of sharp points
  • Get all the mammals you can
  • On the road again
  • The west beckons: on to Utah
  • It takes grit (December 1888 and 1889)
  • Down the Colorado
  • The promise of plenty of company
  • On the very border
  • A splendid trip: in the field with Merriam
  • A great place for cactus (1889-1890)
  • Sagebrush, alkali, and mountain magic
  • All hurry and change
  • Into Death Valley
  • Farmer or naturalist?
  • Section III: Becoming a scientific naturalist
  • Country boy in the city
  • Dixie and new kinds of wilderness
  • Ozark country and beyond
  • I just want to remember
  • Fit for scientific work
  • The school of life
  • From sermons in the woods to marital bliss (1895-1899)
  • Safe and wild in Texas (1900-1905)
  • Wolves dead and alive
  • Making sense of scents
  • Movin' on (1908-1910)
  • Section IV: Work at the survey after Merriam's departure
  • In sickness and in health (1911-1912)
  • So long to administration, back to the field (1913-1914)
  • Changes in leadership and direction (1915-1919)
  • Rats, bats, and beaver (1920-1924)
  • Family time and professional success (1925-1927)
  • Beaver, deer, and cross-country trips (1928-1929)
  • Predator and prey and patents (1930-31)
  • Rewards and sudden announcement (1932-1933)
  • Section V: Retirement and the end
  • Trapping a new life (1933-1939)
  • The early war years and prairie trek (1940-1942)
  • Gathering
  • Bailey in perspective
  • Appendix. biographic profiles of naturalists associated with Vernon Bailey.

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