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Author Schmidly, David J., 1943- author.

Title Vernon Bailey : writings of a field naturalist on the frontier / David J. Schmidly
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Integrative natural history series
Integrative natural history series.
Contents Introduction and background -- Section I: The Bailey family history -- Early family history: from blacksmithing to Bailey Station (1637-1864) -- Iron Creek baby (1864-1872) -- Life around the Bailey homestead -- Wildlife and hunting around the homestead -- Schooling and the making of a naturalist -- Specimens and trapping talk (1886-1887) -- Section II: Working for Merriam and the US Government -- Employment and a field trip -- Dear folks at home -- Grand collecting country: Dakota Territory -- Full of sharp points -- Get all the mammals you can -- On the road again -- The west beckons: on to Utah -- It takes grit (December 1888 and 1889) -- Down the Colorado -- The promise of plenty of company -- On the very border -- A splendid trip: in the field with Merriam -- A great place for cactus (1889-1890) -- Sagebrush, alkali, and mountain magic -- All hurry and change -- Into Death Valley -- Farmer or naturalist? -- Section III: Becoming a scientific naturalist -- Country boy in the city -- Dixie and new kinds of wilderness -- Ozark country and beyond -- I just want to remember -- Fit for scientific work -- The school of life -- From sermons in the woods to marital bliss (1895-1899) -- Safe and wild in Texas (1900-1905) -- Wolves dead and alive -- Making sense of scents -- Movin' on (1908-1910) -- Section IV: Work at the survey after Merriam's departure -- In sickness and in health (1911-1912) -- So long to administration, back to the field (1913-1914) -- Changes in leadership and direction (1915-1919) -- Rats, bats, and beaver (1920-1924) -- Family time and professional success (1925-1927) -- Beaver, deer, and cross-country trips (1928-1929) -- Predator and prey and patents (1930-31) -- Rewards and sudden announcement (1932-1933) -- Section V: Retirement and the end -- Trapping a new life (1933-1939) -- The early war years and prairie trek (1940-1942) -- Gathering -- Bailey in perspective -- Appendix. biographic profiles of naturalists associated with Vernon Bailey
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 1, 2019)
Subject Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942 fast
Subject Naturalists -- United States -- Biography
Naturalists -- United States -- Correspondence
Mammalogists -- United States -- Biography
Mammalogists -- United States -- Correspondence
Natural history -- United States -- History
NATURE -- Essays.
NATURE -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
Mammalogists
Natural history
Naturalists
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Personal correspondence
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942, author.
ISBN 9781623496807
1623496802