Mapping the frontier : a memoir of discovery from coastal Maine to the Alaskan rim / / R. Harvey Sargent ; foreword by Robert M. Sargent ; edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821104703321
• Autore: Sargent R. Harvey
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Down East Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-60893-461-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 526.092
• Soggetti: Cartography - United States - History - 20th century; Geological Survey (U.S.) - Officials and employees
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Mapping The Frontier ; CONTENTS ; Foreword ; CHILDHOOD IN SEDGWICK, 1875-1889; A PASSION FOR EXPLORATION, 1890-1895; THE NATIONAL ZOO, Washington, DC, 1895-1898; JOINING THE SURVEY, 1898-1901; FIRST CHIEF OF PARTY, Glacier National Park, 1901-1903; THE CHINA EXPEDITION, 1903-1904; MAPPING AND MARRIAGE, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, 1904-1906 ; DISTANT JOURNEYS, Alaska, 1906-1907; ALASKA'S KODIAK REGION, 1907-1909; TOPOGRAPHER IN CHARGE, Matanuska Valley and Kenai Peninsula, 1908-1911 ; ALASKA'S MATANUSKA VALLEY, 1912-1914; Epilogue, 1915-1951; Glossary & Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Author R. Harvey Sargent of Sedgwick, ME, led the U. S. Geological Survey in Alaska, for 35 years. He also created the first modern maps of China, trekking across the country's interior during the treacherous post-Boxer Rebellion days in 1903-04. His remarkable story is told in the pages of this book.