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English
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From Edinburgh to Salt Lake City : Archibald Geikie’s Travels in the American West in 1879
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Summer 2021
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89
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Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
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"A major motivation for preparing this article is that some of the best books on the geographic and geologic exploration history of the American West—among them works by Wallace Stegner, Richard Bartlett, and William Goetzmann—make no mention of [Archibald] Geikie’s 1879 field trip and related writings. Geikie’s travels, given his stature as a preeminent geologist, illustrates not only trans-Atlantic cooperation in the development of geology during the nineteenth century but also the paramount position of the American West in the history of the field." [Author]