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Passing Strange, by Martha Sandweiss
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| Date: | 2017-05-04 13:38:40 |
| Blog: | Mountain Beltway  |
| URL: | http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2017/05/04/passing-strange-martha-sandweiss/ |
Summary:
Clarence King was a legend. He led one of the four great surveys of the American west (along with Wheeler, Powell, and Hayden) and eventually convinced Congress to establish One Survey To Rule Them All, an institution that ended up being called the United States Geological Survey. King was its first director, but he didn’t last too long in that position before resigning so he could pursue his own mining …Content analysis:
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