Author: Frederic William SimondsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Record of the Geology of Texas for the Decade Ending December 31, 1896
Author: Frederic William SimondsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The University of Texas Record
Author: M. K. Kellogg's Texas Journal, 1872
Author: Miner Kilbourne KelloggPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292768710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg’s notes about his experiences with “the most completely and comfortably fitted-out expedition which ever went to Texas” is an account of the beauty, the wildness, and the dangers and inconveniences of 1872 Texas. Editor Llerena Friend provides a setting for the journal by tracing the search for mineral wealth in post–Civil War Texas; by describing the aims of the Eastern-born Texas Copper and Land Association, whose expedition the diarist accompanied; and by narrating the life of Miner K. Kellogg—artist, world traveler, writer. Friend’s annotation of the journal fills in details about the names, places, and events that Kellogg mentions. As the expedition travels across North Texas toward Double Mountain, Kellogg reveals himself not only as a man of artistic vision but also as a chronic complainer, an accomplished observer of human nature and individual personality, and a skillful interpreter of problems that beset the people in the uncivilized regions of Texas. A cultured gentleman who had traveled the world and had sat in the company of presidents and princes, this non-Texan was disdainful of the “texans” of the wilderness, for whom “Cards & vulgar slang & stories of Indian adventures form the staple of their mental exercises.” An artist, he was often unable to draw, either because of his constant illnesses and frustrations or because of the unfavorable encampments of the party. Accustomed to the amenities and comforts of life, he criticized the lack of leadership and the purpose of the expedition, and complained incessantly of the chiggers, the “want of cleanliness decency & health,” and “the infernal bacon,” which became the stock fare. Amid the complaints and derisions, however, appear vivid images of the Texas landscape, set down in word pictures by an artist’s pen: the night sky, “with a half moon now & then eclipsed by dark clouds passing over the clear starry vault of bluish grey”; the river-bank soil of “Vandyke brown color”; the mesquite trees in a melancholy and wild basin, “without a leaf upon their dead carcasses, yet still standing & clinging to the hope of resurrection from the life yet remaining in their roots”; and the “acres of the brilliant yellow Compositea & pink sabatea-like carpets spread in the morning air.” Kellogg’s watercolor sketches were unfortunately lost in travel, but his literary record, “M. K. Kellogg’s Mems, Exploring Expedition to Texas, 1872,” remains as a personal account of an abortive attempt to exploit the natural resources of the Texas frontier during Reconstruction and an artist’s picture of the life and the land of that frontier.
Index to North American Geology, Paleontology, Petrology, and Mineralogy, for the Years 1892-1900 Inclusive
Author: Fred Boughton WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography of North American geology, paleontology, petrology, and mineralogy, for the years 1892-1900 inclusive
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
Author: The Geographical Journal
Author: John Scott KeltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Catalogue of the Library ... December 1902
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library: June 1900-December 1902
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Catalog of the Library: Accessions from June, 1900, to December, 1902
Author: American Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Paleontology, Petrology, and Mineralogy, for the Year 1901
Author: Fred Boughton WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description