Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875: 83 (American Exploration and Travel Series) - Tapa blanda

McPherson, Robert

 
9780806169217: Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875: 83 (American Exploration and Travel Series)
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ISBN 10: 0806169214 ISBN 13: 9780806169217
Editorial: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021

Sinopsis

In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors’ diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the team’s experiences, contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion.


Accompanied by the great photographer William Henry Jackson, Hayden’s team quickly found their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water. Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery-Hispanic villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant dispossession from their homeland.


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Robert S. McPherson is Professor of History Emeritus at Utah State University-Blanding Campus. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books on Navajo history and the history of the Southwest, including Under the Eagle: Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker (with Samuel Holiday) and Viewing the Ancestors: Perceptions of the AnaasÁzÍ, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom.

Susan Rhoades Neel is Associate Professor of History at Utah State University-Eastern; she specializes in modern U. S. history and the environmental history of the American West.

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Editorial
University of Oklahoma Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0806169214
ISBN 13 
9780806169217
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Número de páginas
304
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9780806153858: Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 (83) (American Exploration and Travel Series)

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ISBN 10:  0806153857 ISBN 13:  9780806153858
Editorial: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021
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