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04393aam a2200577 i 4500 001 2553EF04550D11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180417s2018 txua b 001 0beng c 010 $a 2018018132 020 $a 1623496799 020 $a 9781623496791 035 $a (OCoLC)1034569817 040 $a TXA/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IGA $d YDX $d STF $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a QH31.B155 $b S35 2018 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Schmidly, David J., $d 1943- $e author. 245 10 $a Vernon Bailey : $b writings of a field naturalist on the frontier / $c David J. Schmidly ; foreword by William I. Lutterschmidt and Brian R. Chapman. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a College Station : $b Texas A&M University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xviii, 452 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Integrative natural history series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction and background -- Section I: The Bailey family history -- Early family history: from blacksmithing to Bailey Station (1637-1864) -- Iron Creek baby (1864-1872) -- Life around the Bailey homestead -- Wildlife and hunting around the homestead -- Schooling and the making of a naturalist -- Specimens and trapping talk (1886-1887) -- Section II: Working for Merriam and the US Government -- Employment and a field trip -- Dear folks at home -- Grand collecting country: Dakota Territory -- Full of sharp points -- Get all the mammals you can -- On the road again -- The west beckons: on to Utah -- It takes grit (December 1888 and 1889) -- Down the Colorado -- The promise of plenty of company -- On the very border -- A splendid trip: in the field with Merriam -- A great place for cactus (1889-1890) -- Sagebrush, alkali, and mountain magic -- All hurry and change -- Into Death Valley -- Farmer or naturalist? -- Section III: Becoming a scientific naturalist -- Country boy in the city -- Dixie and new kinds of wilderness -- Ozark country and beyond -- I just want to remember -- Fit for scientific work -- The school of life -- From sermons in the woods to marital bliss (1895-1899) -- Safe and wild in Texas (1900-1905) -- Wolves dead and alive -- Making sense of scents -- Movin' on (1908-1910) -- Section IV: Work at the survey after Merriam's departure -- In sickness and in health (1911-1912) -- So long to administration, back to the field (1913-1914) -- Changes in leadership and direction (1915-1919) -- Rats, bats, and beaver (1920-1924) -- Family time and professional success (1925-1927) -- Beaver, deer, and cross-country trips (1928-1929) -- Predator and prey and patents (1930-31) -- Rewards and sudden announcement (1932-1933) -- Section V: Retirement and the end -- Trapping a new life (1933-1939) -- The early war years and prairie trek (1940-1942) -- Gathering -- Bailey in perspective -- Appendix. biographic profiles of naturalists associated with Vernon Bailey. 600 10 $a Bailey, Vernon, $d 1864-1942 $v Correspondence. 600 17 $a Bailey, Vernon, $d 1864-1942. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00104029 650 0 $a Naturalists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Naturalists $z United States $v Correspondence. 650 0 $a Mammalogists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Mammalogists $z United States $v Correspondence. 650 0 $a Natural history $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a Mammalogists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01006942 650 7 $a Natural history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034268 650 7 $a Naturalists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034543 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a NATURE / Animals / Mammals. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Records and correspondence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423917 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Bailey, Vernon, $d 1864-1942, $e author. 830 0 $a Integrative natural history series. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190402023045.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2553EF04550D11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search