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Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian
Elliott Coues Naturalist and Frontier Historian Author:Paul Russell Cutright, Michael J. Brodhead Best known as the author of the pioneering Key to North American Birds, Elliott Coues (1842-99) was one of America's most renowned but least understood ornithologists and historiansas well as a naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, Army surgeon on the American frontier, occultist, and the youngest person ever to become a me... more »mber of the National Academy of Sciences. Now available in paperback, this comprehensive biography of a brilliant, ambitious, and phenomenally productive man ranks as the definitive life of Elliott Coues.« less