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Trails to Tiburon - The 1894 and 1895 Field Diaries of W J McGee (Hardcover)
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Trails to Tiburon - The 1894 and 1895 Field Diaries of W J McGee (Hardcover)
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When William John McGee set out from Washington, D.C., for the
Sonoran Desert in 1894, he was inspired by a passion for adventure
as much as a thirst for knowledge. McGee lived in an era when
discovery was made through travel rather than study, and
reputations were forged by going where no outsiders had gone
before. A self-taught scientist in the newly forming field of
anthropology, McGee led two expeditions through southern Arizona
and northern Sonora for the Bureau of American Ethnology. There he
conducted ethnographic research among the Papagos (Tohono O'odham)
and the Seris, and his subsequent publication "The Seri Indians"
helped secure his place in the anthropological community. McGee's
complete journals of the expeditions, kept in small field notebooks
and preserved in the Library of Congress, are published here for
the first time. These journals contain detailed descriptions of the
country and people McGee encountered and convey the adventure of
traveling through wild and unfamiliar places--including a voyage to
Isla TiburA3n, or Shark Island, in the Gulf of California--and
being plagued by foul weather, a shortage of supplies, and fear of
attack from hostile Indians. "Trails to TiburA3n" features 57
historical photographs taken on the expedition, capturing the
places McGee saw and the people he encountered. Fontana's notes to
the diary provide useful botanical, geological, and ethnographic
information, while his introduction places McGee and his field work
in the context of late-nineteenth-century anthropology and science.
"Trails to TiburA3n" reveals McGee's versatility as a field worker
and shows his methods, often questioned today, to be the reasonable
response of a mancaught up in the intellectual fervor of his time.
For anyone wanting to share in the spirit of adventure, these
journals are a landmark in the annals of exploration.
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