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Russell M. Lawson

Frontier Naturalist

Jean Louis Berlandier and the Exploration of Northern Mexico and Texas

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This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War. In 1826, when the story begins, the region was claimed by both Mexico and the United States. Neither country knew much about the lands crossed by such rivers as the Guadalupe, Brazos, Nueces, Trinity, and Rio Grande. Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, was part of a team sent out by the Mexican Boundary Commission to explore the area. His role was to collect specimens of flora and fauna and to record detailed observations of the landscapes and peoples through which the exploring party traveled. His… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-8263-5219-4
  • EAN: 9780826352194
  • Produktnummer: 34255620
  • Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'849 KB

Über den Autor


Russell M. Lawson, professor of history at Bacone College, is the author of several other books on exploration, most recently The Land Between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819. He lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

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