Edward Palmer: the Man and His Family

Download or read book Edward Palmer: the Man and His Family written by Gayle Yiotis and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Edward Palmer's explorations and botanical achievements, the most comprehensive by Rogers McVaugh in his book, Edward Palmer, Plant Explorer of the American West (1956), and Marvin D. Jeter, editor of Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds (1990; 2010). But despite their extensive and far reaching research into Palmer's explorations, Palmer and his family are still somewhat of a mystery. Palmer piqued my interest as I read through some of his journals and correspondence in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. I wanted to know more about this seemingly frail, lonely man, not Palmer the botanist, or Palmer the doctor, or Palmer the collector, but what made Palmer the man.