Details the daily lives and adventures of the 1875 Ferdinand V. Hayden survey team, largely through their own personal narratives. The narrative highlights interactions between the surveyors and local indigenous communities, Four Corners region geography, and the American expansionist impulse--Provided by publisher.

Explore the life and times of the man whose name is synonymous with inventiveness, curiosity, and creative genius. In this course, taught by art historian and Professor George R. Bent, take an engrossing look at this grandmaster, the intriguing world he inhabited and shaped, and the legacies he left behind. These visually rich 36 lectures will give fresh insights into Leonardo's iconic paintings, his important anatomical studies, and his astonishingly...

"Where does progress happen? The story of civilization is the story of the city. It is cities that have created and defined the modern world by acting as the sites of pivotal advances in culture, politics, science, technology, and more. There is no question that certain places, at certain times in history, have contributed disproportionately toward making the world a better place. This book tells the story of forty of those places. In Centers of Progress:...