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Early Southwest ornithologists, 1528-1900 /

"With its colorful landscape and wonderful diversity of plant and animal communities, the southwestern borderland has attracted naturalists for centuries. As Col. Thomas Henry noted in 1853, there "are to be found many curious birds, peculiar to the country." This book identifies more...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fischer, Dan L. (Dan Lewis), 1932-
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2001.
Series:Southwest Center series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Excitement of Discovery
  • 2. Expanding Frontiers
  • 3. Exploration of the Ceded Mexican Territories
  • 4. The New Boundary and on to the Pacific
  • 5. Frontier Unrest
  • 6. West of the 95th Meridian
  • 7. The Dwindling Frontier.