| Description |
1 online resource |
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Integrative natural history series |
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Integrative natural history series.
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| 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
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Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942 |
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Naturalists -- United States -- Biography
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Naturalists -- United States -- Correspondence
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Mammalogists -- United States -- Biography
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Mammalogists -- United States -- Correspondence
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Natural history -- United States -- History
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NATURE -- Essays.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
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Mammalogists
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Natural history
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Naturalists
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Personal correspondence
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942, author.
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| ISBN |
9781623496807 |
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1623496802 |
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