Forgotten Botanist

Forgotten Botanist

Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art

Brown, Wynne

University of Nebraska Press

11/2021

328

Mole

Inglês

9781496222817

15 a 20 dias

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue: New York Harbor, December 1869
1. "Now I Am at the Jumping Off Place": San Francisco, 1870
2. "Perhaps You've Heard Our Sadie Was Killed": Santa Barbara, 1870
3. "It Is Like Death to Me to Be Idle": Santa Barbara, 1871-76
4. "A Great Botanist from the Sierras": Michigan, the Civil War, and Northern California, 1832-76
5. "My Dear, Soul-Knit Brother": Santa Barbara and Sierra Valley, 1876-77
6. "Into the Matrimonial Vortex!": Santa Barbara and Oakland, 1877-80
7. "Try to Touch the Heart of Santa Catalina": Southern Arizona, Spring 1881
8. "An Extreme Outpost of Civilized Life": Southern Arizona, Fall 1881
9. "Eleven Days of Dungeon Life": Southern Arizona, Fall 1881
10. "Happy in Our Work & in Each Other": Oakland, 1881-82
11. "Rushing, Reckless Life of a True Mining Town": Southern Arizona, Summer 1882
12. "A Botanical Paradise": Southern Arizona, Summer-Fall 1882
13. "Considered by Less Ambitious a Fine Season's Work": Oakland and Southern Arizona, 1882-83
14. "Lives Cast in Pleasant Places": Northern Arizona and New Mexico, 1884
15. "Grandest Display the World Has Ever Known": New Orleans and New England, 1884-85
16. "Our Hillock in Cholame": Near San Luis Obispo, California, 1885-87
17. "Life, to Me, Seems Sweeter Each Year": Oakland and Mexico, 1887-88
18. "The Narrowest Escape from Instant Death": Oakland, 1888-91
19. "Sell Everything and Move to California!": Oakland and Chicago, 1891-93
20. "A Sweet, Sacred Togetherness": Oakland and Mexico, 1894-98
21. "Wish We Were Out in the Wild Woods": Oakland and Arizona, 1899-1903
22. "Safe-Tho' Tremendously Shaken": Arizona and Oakland, 1903-6
23. "I Feel So Helpless and Alone": Oakland, 1906-12
24. "Partners in Botany": Oakland, 1908-23
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
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Biography; History; American History; East Coast; American West; Santa Barbara; Nineteenth Century History; California; Oakland; Flora; Illustrations; Artist; Environment; Environmental Studies; Women's Studies; Oregon; Mexico; Environmental History; John Muir; Clara Barton; Journalist; Social Justice; Activist; Activism; Women's Suffrage; Forest Conservation; Environmental Protection; Women's History; John Gill Lemmon; Plant Illustration; Women's Suffrage