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Drawing the Line : How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America Hardcover - 2000
by Danson, Edwin
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- Title Drawing the Line : How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America
- Author Danson, Edwin
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons, NY
- Date December 8, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0471385026.G
- ISBN 9780471385028 / 0471385026
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania, Mason, Charles
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00036824
- Dewey Decimal Code 974.880
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Summary
THE FIRST POPULAR HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE The Mason-Dixon line-surely the most famous surveyors' line ever drawn-represents one of the greatest and most difficult scientific achievements of its time. But behind this significant triumph is a thrilling story, one that has thus far eluded both historians and surveyors. In this engrossing narrative, professional surveyor Edwin Danson takes us on a fascinating journey with Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two gifted and exuberant English surveyors, through the fields and forests of eighteenth-century America. Vividly describing life in the backwoods and the hardships and dangers of frontier surveying, Drawing the Line discloses for the first time in 250 years many hitherto unknown surveying methods, revealing how Mason and Dixon succeeded where the best American surveyors of the period failed. In accessible, ordinary language, Danson masterfully throws the first clear light on the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line. Set in the social and historical context of pre-Revolutionary America, this book is a spellbinding account of one of the great and historic achievements of its time. Advance Praise for Drawing the Line "Drawing the Line combines a fast-moving story, a human drama, and a clear account of surveying in the era of George Washington. An intriguing interaction of politics and science."-CHARLES ROYSTER, Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University, and Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History
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SEVENTEEN SIXTY-THREE had been one of those years.