books.google.ie - This book chronicles the fascinating story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to California s spectacular natural bounty over the decades from 1786, when the La P rouse Expedition arrived at Monterey, to the Death Valley expedition in 1890 91, the proclaimed end of...http://books.google.ie/books/about/California_Frontier_Naturalists.html?id=TDJsQ4k19gkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCalifornia Frontier Naturalists