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Absaroka Mountains 1893 and 1897: Jaggar's Diaries and Photographs

By Bruce Blevins

ISBN: 1893771067
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Thomas A. Jaggar was an assistant to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) party under Arnold Hague conducting a geology survey of the Absaroka Mountain Range in northwest Wyoming during 1893 and 1897. In 1893 Thomas Jaggar as twenty-two years old and just out of college. His diary entries in field notebooks about life during the survey are the basis for this book. Additionally, Thomas Jaggar took hundreds of photographs, of which several geology-related and a few people photographs are still available. The more interesting of these black-and-white photographs are presented in this book. Thomas Jaggar's material includes information on Bozeman, Montana; Yellowstone National Park; and the drainages of the Boulder, Clark's Fork, Yellowstone, and Shoshone Rivers.

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