Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier HistorianUniversity of Illinois Press, 2001 - 509 pages Best known as the author of the pioneering Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues (1842-99) was one of America's most renowned but least understood ornithologists and historians-as well as a naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, Army surgeon on the American frontier, occultist, and the youngest person ever to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Now available in paperback, this comprehensive biography of a brilliant, ambitious, and phenomenally productive man ranks as the definitive life of Elliott Coues. |
Contents
On the Coast of Labrador | 3 |
Young Naturalist on the Piscataqua | 15 |
Beside the Potomac | 29 |
Trail to the Southwest | 51 |
A Months Journey from Anywhere | 64 |
From the Desert to the Sea | 77 |
Post Surgeon in Columbia | 91 |
Fort Macon North Carolina | 105 |
Welcomed in Europe | 277 |
Theosophy and Spiritualism | 292 |
AOU Code and CheckList | 309 |
A New Wife and Womens Rights | 325 |
Coues and Lewis and Clark | 339 |
Further Adventures in Historical Editing | 364 |
Traders Trappers and Artists | 379 |
Coues Robins and The Osprey | 395 |
Fort McHenry Baltimore | 121 |
Fort Randall Dakota Territory | 138 |
Along the 49th Parallel | 159 |
Life Histories and Bibliography | 178 |
The Years with Hayden | 193 |
Agony in Arizona | 214 |
Army Surgeon to Civilian | 233 |
Ornithological Exactitude | 243 |
Coues and the AOU | 261 |
Last Trails | 410 |
Postlude | 425 |
New Birds Described by Elliott Coues | 432 |
New Mammah Described by Elliott Coues | 435 |
Elliott Cones Memberships in Learned Societies | 437 |
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Common terms and phrases
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