Elliott Coues
Subtitle: naturalist and frontier historian
By: Paul Russell Cutright and Michael J. Brodhead.
Contributors: Brodhead, Michael J., joint author.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
Subjects: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899.; Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.; Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography.; Historians -- United States -- Biography.
Description: A biography of the renowned American ornithologist and historian, who was also a naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, Army surgeon on the American frontier, occultist, and the youngest person ever to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 439-480.
Includes index.