A Long Ride in Texas: The Explorations of John Leonard Riddell

By: John Leonard Riddell

John Leonard Riddell was a medical doctor, geologist, and botanist who traveled from New Orleans through Texas in 1839, surveying the Texas Hill Country for a group of businessmen searching for the lost San Saba silver mine. By joining the expedition, which of course did not find the mine, Riddell became the first trained scientist--preceding even Ferdinand Roemer--to visit the area of the Edwards Plateau and to provide a detailed description of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089096582X
• ISBN13: 9780890965825
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"