Life and Letters of R.A.F. Penrose, Jr

Table of contents

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• Title Page i
• Contents iii
• Illustrations iv
• Foreword v
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Chapter 1 - A Man's Vision and His Bequest 1
• Chapter 2 - From These Roots 7
• Chapter 3 - School Days 41
• Chapter 4 - Nathaniel Southgate Shaler Points the Way 77
• Chapters Texas in the Early Days 107
• Chapter 6 - J. C. Branner and the Arkansas Survey 141
• Chapter 7 - Cripple Creek and Other Ventures 163
• Chapter 8 - Mining in Arizona Territory 193
• Chapter 9 - Adventures in Eurasia 211
• Chapter 10 - A Harvard Allumnus 293

• Title Page i
• Contents iii
• Illustrations iv
• Foreword v
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Chapter 1 - A Man's Vision and His Bequest 1
• Chapter 2 - From These Roots 7
• Chapter 3 - School Days 41
• Chapter 4 - Nathaniel Southgate Shaler Points the Way 77
• Chapters Texas in the Early Days 107
• Chapter 6 - J. C. Branner and the Arkansas Survey 141
• Chapter 7 - Cripple Creek and Other Ventures 163
• Chapter 8 - Mining in Arizona Territory 193
• Chapter 9 - Adventures in Eurasia 211
• Chapter 10 - A Harvard Allumnus 293
• Chapter II - Beginnings of Utah Copper 305
• C H a Pt E R 12 - Alaska in 1903 321
• Chapter 13 - Trip to the Antipodes 335
• Chapter 14 - Africa and Its Gold Fields 377
• Chapter 15 - Around South America in 1907 415
• Chapter 16 - T.C. Chamberlin and The University of Chicago 493
• Chapter 17 - Era of World War I 513
• Chapter 18 - Beginnings of the Society Of Economic Geologists 549
• Chapter 19 - Philadelphia in the Nineteen-Twenties 599
• Chapter 20 Relations with the Geological Society 683
• Chapter 21 - Relations with the American Philosophical Society 717
• Chapter 22 - Search for an Heir 729
• A Twenty-Year Summary 755