In 1870 Professor Joseph LeConte of the newly formed University of California led a party of students through the Sierra Nevada.

Start by marking A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierras of California by the "University Excursion Party (High Sierra Classics Series) as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Joseph Le Conte moved to California in 1869, to become a professor of Natural History at the then-new University of California in Oakland. In 1870, a group of students invited him to come along on a five-week trip on horseback to the High Sierra. In 1870 Professor Joseph LeConte of the newly formed University of California led a party of students through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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Joseph Le Conte (alternative spelling: Joseph LeConte) was a physician, geologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and early Californ.

Published 1875 by Francis & Valentine in San Francisco. Preface signed: . 'C. Also published in Sierra club bulletin, San Francisco, 1900, v. 3, no. 1. Master microform held by: ResP. Sierra Nevada (Calif.

Bibliographic Details. Title: A Journal of Ramblings through the High. Publisher: The Sierra Club, San Francisco. Publication Date: 1930. we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. For questions please telephone: 415-292-4698, or write mailwasserbooks. List this Seller's Books. Payment Methods accepted by seller.

The ten scholars were led by Professor Joseph LeConte, a popular instructor and an expert in a number of the natural sciences, particularly geology. ISBN13:9780939666706. Release Date:March 1994.

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Written by Joseph Le Conte, Audiobook narrated by Jack de Golia. In the summer of 1870, Professor Joseph LeConte (1823-1901), and some of his students at the then brand-new University of California, went on a five-week camping trip on horseback to Yosemite and the High Sierra, including Mono Lake and Lake Tahoe. Along the way, LeConte and his students faced hardships of weather and terrain. They had difficulties with their horses and finding trails, and the weather made the men broil and freeze.

by Joseph Le Conte A Journal Of Ramblings Through The High Sierras Of California.

A Journal Of Ramblings Through The High Sierras Of California. An Excursion To California Over The Prairie, Rocky Mountains, And Great Sierra Nevada. Ramblings In California. My First Summer In The Sierra. History Of The Donner Party, A Tragedy Of The Sierra. Mountaineering In The Sierra Nevada.

Joseph Le Conte was a physician, geologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and early .

Joseph Le Conte was a physician, geologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and early California conservationist. Le Conte was educated at Franklin College, Georgia, where he graduated (1841); he afterwards studied medicine and received his degree at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1843. After practising for three or four years at Macon, Georgia, he entered Harvard, and studied natural history under L. Agassiz. An excursion made with Professors J. Hall and Agassiz to the Helderberg mountains of New York developed a keen interest in geology.