Author: C. Gilbert Storms
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627879048
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Raphael Pumpelly came to the mountains south of Tucson, Arizona, in 1860 as a young mining engineer looking for adventure. He was just twenty-three years old and a recent graduate of the prestigious Royal Mining Academy in Germany. During his time in the Southwest, Pumpelly learned how to mine silver in Arizona and how to survive in the lawless environment of the borderlands. He met miners, ranchers, soldiers, bandits, Mexican revolutionaries, and raiding Apaches in a territory where there was no law enforcement and no effective military force to oppose the attacks of hostile Indians. After he left Arizona, he became an internationally renowned geologist, a consultant to foreign governments on geology and mining, a pioneering researcher in geoarchaeology, and a professor of geology and mining at Harvard. But it all began in Arizona. An adventurer and a talented storyteller, Raphael Pumpelly's accounts stand alongside the best American pioneer writers. With lively prose and vivid detail depicting the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, his writings have been an invaluable resource for historians of Arizona in the chaotic years between the Gadsden Purchase in 1854 and the start of the Civil War. Raphael Pumpelly’s Arizona explores how life used to be on the western range and is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the last places to be modernized in America -- Arizona.
Raphael Pumpelly's Arizona
Author: C. Gilbert Storms
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627879048
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Raphael Pumpelly came to the mountains south of Tucson, Arizona, in 1860 as a young mining engineer looking for adventure. He was just twenty-three years old and a recent graduate of the prestigious Royal Mining Academy in Germany. During his time in the Southwest, Pumpelly learned how to mine silver in Arizona and how to survive in the lawless environment of the borderlands. He met miners, ranchers, soldiers, bandits, Mexican revolutionaries, and raiding Apaches in a territory where there was no law enforcement and no effective military force to oppose the attacks of hostile Indians. After he left Arizona, he became an internationally renowned geologist, a consultant to foreign governments on geology and mining, a pioneering researcher in geoarchaeology, and a professor of geology and mining at Harvard. But it all began in Arizona. An adventurer and a talented storyteller, Raphael Pumpelly's accounts stand alongside the best American pioneer writers. With lively prose and vivid detail depicting the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, his writings have been an invaluable resource for historians of Arizona in the chaotic years between the Gadsden Purchase in 1854 and the start of the Civil War. Raphael Pumpelly’s Arizona explores how life used to be on the western range and is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the last places to be modernized in America -- Arizona.
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627879048
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Raphael Pumpelly came to the mountains south of Tucson, Arizona, in 1860 as a young mining engineer looking for adventure. He was just twenty-three years old and a recent graduate of the prestigious Royal Mining Academy in Germany. During his time in the Southwest, Pumpelly learned how to mine silver in Arizona and how to survive in the lawless environment of the borderlands. He met miners, ranchers, soldiers, bandits, Mexican revolutionaries, and raiding Apaches in a territory where there was no law enforcement and no effective military force to oppose the attacks of hostile Indians. After he left Arizona, he became an internationally renowned geologist, a consultant to foreign governments on geology and mining, a pioneering researcher in geoarchaeology, and a professor of geology and mining at Harvard. But it all began in Arizona. An adventurer and a talented storyteller, Raphael Pumpelly's accounts stand alongside the best American pioneer writers. With lively prose and vivid detail depicting the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, his writings have been an invaluable resource for historians of Arizona in the chaotic years between the Gadsden Purchase in 1854 and the start of the Civil War. Raphael Pumpelly’s Arizona explores how life used to be on the western range and is a must-read for anyone interested in one of the last places to be modernized in America -- Arizona.
Raphael Pumpelly
Author: Margaret Derby Champlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
He also did a classic study of the structure of the Green Mountains that contributed to a better understanding of the problems surrounding the well-known "Taconic controversy.".
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
He also did a classic study of the structure of the Green Mountains that contributed to a better understanding of the problems surrounding the well-known "Taconic controversy.".
Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Biennial Report of the State Geologist
Author: Missouri. Bureau of Geology and Mines
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Annual Report [of the Director]
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Appendix to the House and Senate Journals ...
Author: Missouri. General Assembly
Publisher:
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Consists of reports of state officers and departments issued as appendices to the House journals and the Senate journals from 1840 to 1867.
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Consists of reports of state officers and departments issued as appendices to the House journals and the Senate journals from 1840 to 1867.
Report
Author: Missouri. Division of Geological Survey and Water Resources
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the ... General Assembly of the State of Missouri
Author: Missouri. General Assembly
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Dept. of the Interior
Publisher:
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description