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Author : Mary Emma Dartt Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book On the Plains, and Among the Peaks written by Mary Emma Dartt Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia Bonta
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890966341
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (663 download)
Download or read book American Women Afield written by Marcia Bonta and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the writings of 25 women naturalists of the late 19th through early 20th century, with biographical profiles. Writings by naturalists including Susan Fenimore Cooper, Alice Eastwood, Ynes Mexia, E. Lucy Braun, and Rachel Carson recount travels and findings and discuss vanishing species and deforestation. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Elizabeth Oakes
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1438195451
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Scientists, Updated Edition written by Elizabeth Oakes and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of World Scientists, Updated Edition is a comprehensive reference tool for learning about scientists and their work. It includes 500 cross-referenced profiles of well-known scientific "greats" of history and contemporary scientists whose work is verging on prominence. More than 100 entries are devoted to women and minority scientists. Each entry includes the subject's full name, dates of birth/death, nationality, and field(s) of specialization. A biographical essay focuses primarily on the subject's scientific work and achievements; it also highlights additional information, such as place of birth, parents' names and occupations, name(s) of spouse(s) and children, educational background, jobs held, and awards earned. Profiles include: Archimedes (c. 287–212 BCE): Mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543): Astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642): Astronomer Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782): Mathematician John James Audubon (1785–1851): Biologist Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910): Medical scientist Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896): Chemist Albert Einstein (1879–1955): Physicist Niels Bohr (1885–1962): Physicist George Washington Carver (c. 1861–1943): Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934): Physicist and chemist Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882–1945): Aerospace engineer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953): Astronomer Grace Murray Hooper (1906–1992): Computer scientist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994): Chemist Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997): Earth scientist Alan Turing (1912–1954): Computer scientist Jonas Edward Salk (1914–1995): Medical scientist Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958): Chemist Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924–2017): Biologist Stephen Hawking (1942–2018): Astronomer.
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Download or read book On the Plains, and Among the Peaks; Or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gail M. Beaton
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322072
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Colorado Women written by Gail M. Beaton and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals. The experiences of Colorado women differed greatly across economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Marital status, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation colored their worlds and others' perceptions and expectations of them. Each chapter addresses the everyday lives of women in a certain period, placing them in historical context, and is followed by vignettes on women's organizations and notable individuals of the time. Native American, Hispanic, African American, Asian and Anglo women's stories hail from across the state--from the Eastern Plains to the Front Range to the Western Slope--and in their telling a more complete history of Colorado emerges. Colorado Women makes a significant contribution to the discussion of women's presence in Colorado that will be of interest to historians, students, and the general reader interested in Colorado, women's and western history.
Author : Mary Anne Andrei
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673045X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Nature's Mirror written by Mary Anne Andrei and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world. Witnessing firsthand the decimation caused by hide hunters, commercial feather collectors, whalers, big game hunters, and poachers, these museum taxidermists recognized the existential threat to critically endangered species and the urgent need to protect them. The compelling exhibits they created—as well as the scientific field work, popular writing, and lobbying they undertook—established a vital leadership role in the early conservation movement for American museums that persists to this day. Through their individual research expeditions and collective efforts to arouse demand for environmental protections, this remarkable cohort—including William T. Hornaday, Carl E. Akeley, and several lesser-known colleagues—created our popular understanding of the animal world and its fragile habitats. For generations of museum visitors, they turned the glass of an exhibition case into a window on nature—and a mirror in which to reflect on our responsibility for its conservation.
Author : American Association of Museums
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Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the American Association of Museums written by American Association of Museums and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each vol. contains a list of members.
Author : Maxine Benson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803261556
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Martha Maxwell, Rocky Mountain Naturalist written by Maxine Benson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?See, there she is!? cried one visitor to the Centennial Exposition. ?Just think! She killed all them animals,? echoed another. ?There, that?s her!? All during the hot Philadelphia summer of 1876, throngs of people pushed and shoved their way into the Kansas-Colorado Building, eager to catch a glimpse of the small, dark-haired woman responsible for creating the extraordinary display of bears, deer, and other mammals cavorting over a Rocky Mountain landscape. Curious, skeptical, friendly?on and on they came, until the policemen stationed at the doors were hard-pressed to maintain control. The fairgoers were intent on seeing for themselves the ?modern Diana? who had come all the way from the wilds of Colorado. Maxine Benson?s finely crafted biography of Martha Maxwell illuminates the little-known but important career of a remarkable woman. Naturalist, taxidermist, museologist, artist?Maxwell pioneered in a number of fields new for women. Born in Pennsylvania in 1831 and educated in the Midwest, she traveled to the gold fields of Colorado with her husband in 1860. A chance encounter with a German taxidermist determined her lifework, and Maxwell soon devoted her boundless energy to hunting and mounting all forms of Rocky Mountain wildlife, which she displayed in unusual habitat settings in her museum in Boulder and later in Denver. Her spreading fame led to an invitation to exhibit her collection at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, where she achieved international renown. As Maxwell?s major scientific and artistic contributions to natural history taxidermy and display were recognized, her influence carried to the Smithsonian Institution. Separated from her husband and alienated from her daughter, however, she became increasingly unhappy as her professional accomplishments grew. Her tragic and lonely death in 1881 revealed something of the price she paid for daring to be different. Like that of other accomplished women of her era, Maxwell?s fame did not keep pace with the significant influence she had on her profession. Thanks to Maxine Benson, Martha Maxwell now takes her rightful place in the history of the West and of the nation.
Author : Janet Robertson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496206312
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Magnificent Mountain Women written by Janet Robertson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain Women. Arlene Blum provides a new introduction to this edition.
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book West American History written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700623892
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Yellowstone and the Smithsonian written by Diane Smith and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1996-97, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison. Since that time, thousands more have been killed or hazed back into the park, as wildlife managers struggle to accommodate an animal that does not recognize man-made borders. Tensions over the hunting and preservation of the bison, an animal sacred to many Native Americans and an icon of the American West, are at least as old as the nation's first national park. Established in 1872, in part "to protect against the wanton destruction of the fish and game," Yellowstone has from the first been dedicated to preserving wildlife along with the park’s other natural wonders. The Smithsonian Institution, itself founded in 1848, viewed the park’s resources as critical to its own mission, looking to Yellowstone for specimens to augment its natural history collections, and later to stock the National Zoo. How this relationship developed around the conservation and display of American wildlife, with these two distinct organizations coming to mirror one another, is the little-known story Diane Smith tells in Yellowstone and the Smithsonian. Even before its founding as a national park, and well before the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, the Yellowstone region served as a source of specimens for scientists centered in Washington, D.C. Tracing the Yellowstone-Washington reciprocity to the earliest government-sponsored exploration of the region, Smith provides background and context for many of the practices, such as animal transfers and captive breeding, pursued a century later by a new generation of conservation biologists. She shows how Yellowstone, through its relationship with the Smithsonian, the National Museum, and ultimately the National Zoo, helped elevate the iconic nature of representative wildlife of the American West, particularly bison. Her book helps all of us, not least of all historians and biologists, to better understand the wildlife management and conservation policies that followed.
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book History of the Pacific States of North America: Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming. 1890 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Moring
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589791831
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Early American Naturalists written by John Moring and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical work chronicles the lives, adventures, and discoveries of America's great explorer/naturalists--Lewis & Clark, Martha Maxwell, John James Audubon, John Muir, William Gambel, Thomas Say, Robert Kennicott and John Townsend. Regardless of the formidable obstacles and travails, these naturalist-explorers provided an invaluable scientific foundation as to how the plants, animals, and environment of the American West coexist. From identifying new species to discovering prehistoric fossils, this book celebrates these intrepid trailblazers who boldly navigated and documented the untrammeled, awe-inspiring frontier west of the Mississippi.
Author : Marilyn Ogilvie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135963428
Total Pages : 2281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science written by Marilyn Ogilvie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 2281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this milestone reference combines "facts-fronted" fast access to biographical details with highly readable accounts and analyses of nearly 3000 scientists' lives, works, and accomplishments. For all academic and public libraries' science and women's studies collections.
Author : Karen R. Jones
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457197545
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Epiphany in the Wilderness written by Karen R. Jones and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three “acts,” using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a “cultural ecology of the chase” in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy.Using the metaphor of the theater, Jones argues that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual. The leading actor was the all-conquering masculine hunter hero, the sharpshooting man of the wilderness who tamed and claimed the West with each provident step. Women were also a significant part of the story, treading the game trails as plucky adventurers and resilient homesteaders and acting out their exploits in autobiographical accounts and stage shows.Epiphany in the Wilderness informs various academic debates surrounding the frontier period, including the construction of nature as a site of personal challenge, gun culture, gender adaptations and the crafting of the masculine wilderness hero figure, wildlife management and consumption, memorializing and trophy-taking, and the juxtaposition of a closing frontier with an emerging conservation movement."
Author : George A. Cevasco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313036497
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists written by George A. Cevasco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-12-09 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.
