"A book of great sweep and of sharp and shifting focus. It portrays
the hugeness, harshness and magnificence of the land and the stamin
and ardor of the men who took its measure."--New York Times After
the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later
called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out
what lay west of the hundredth meridian in the vast American
wilderness. Parties led by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, medical
doctor turned geologist, Clarence King, aristocrat and
intellectual, John Wesley Powell, conqueror of the Colorado River,
and Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, determined military man and
scientist, roamed over the wild country during the years 1867-79,
observing, analyzing, mapping, and at the end of each season,
returning to Washington to publish their results. For the first
time in book form, Richard A. Bartlett has recreated for the reader
the hardships, both physical and financial, the discoveries, and
the high adventures of the bold, headstrong, and often brilliant
men of the Great Surveys as they climbed the Rockies, explored the
Yellowstone, or battled the Colorado. Richard A. Bartlett,
Professor Emeritus of History in Florida State University is a
well-known writer in the field of western history. Bartlett was
educated at the Universities of Colorado and Chicago and became
interested in the Great Surveys while in the mining camps of
Boulder County, Colorado.
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