Author: James Gregory Moore

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780804752237

This book recounts the life and achievements of Clarence King, widely recognized as one of America's most gifted intellectuals of the nineteenth century, and a legendary figure in the American West. King led landmark precursory surveys that positioned him to become the founding director of the U.S. Geological Survey, the most important government science agency in the nation.