Edward Schieffelin

Broschiertes Buch

Portrait of a Prospector

Edward Schieffelin's Own Story

Herausgeber: Craig, R. B.

Beschreibung

Edward â Edâ Schieffelin was the epitome of the American frontiersman. His search for wealth followed a path well-trod by thousands who journeyed west in the mid to late nineteenth century. In Portrait of a Prospector, historian R. Bruce Craig pieces together the colourful memoirs and oral histories of this singular individual.

Autor

R. Bruce Craig is an independent historian and biographer. A former national park ranger and second winner of the prestigious Freeman Tilden Award for Outstanding National Park Interpretation (1982), Craig also served as Northeast Regional Director of National Parks Conservation Association, and in stints as Executive Director of the Association of National Park Cooperating Associations (now Association of Partners for Public Lands), the National Parks Trust, and the National Coalition for History. Today he lives in Atlantic Canada, where he teaches American History at the University of Prince Edward Island. Craig is the editor of the fiftieth anniversary edition of Freeman Tilden's classic work, Interpreting Our Heritage, and author of Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case and The Apprenticeship of Alger Hiss.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 208g
• ISBN-13: 9780806157733
• ISBN-10: 0806157739
• Artikelnr.: 48208120