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Frontier Naturalist: Jean Louis Berlandier and the Exploration of Northern Mexico and Texas

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By (author): Russell M. Lawson

This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War. In 1826, when the story begins, the region was claimed by both Mexico and the United States. Neither country knew much about the lands crossed by such rivers as the Guadalupe, Brazos, Nueces, Trinity, and Rio Grande. Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, was part of a team sent out by the Mexican Boundary Commission to explore the area. His role was to collect specimens of flora and fauna and to record detailed observations of the landscapes and peoples through which the exploring party travelled. His observations, including sketches and paintings of plants, landmarks, and American Indians, were the first compendium of scientific observations of the region to be collected and eventually published.

Here, historian Russell Lawson tells the story of this multinational expedition, using Berlandiers copious records as a way of conveying his view of the natural environment. Lawsons narrative allows us to peer over Berlandiers shoulder as he travelled and recorded his experiences. Berlandier and Lawson show us an America that no longer exists. See more
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  • Publication Date: 01 Nov 2012
  • Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780826352170

About Russell M. Lawson

Russell M. Lawson professor of history at Bacone College is the author of several other books on exploration most recently The Land Between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttalls Ascent of the Arkansas 1819. He lives in Broken Arrow Oklahoma.

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