Timeline

Lifetime: 1860 - 1933 Passed: ≈ 91 years ago

Title

Geologist, Geographer, Author

Country/Nationality

United States

Harold W. Fairbanks

Harold W. Fairbanks (b.1860) was an expert on the geology and geography of the Pacific Coast, and author of over 40 books and articles. His published works include Stories of our mother Earth (1899), Home geography (1902), Physiography of California (1903), and Stories of rocks and minerals (1903). The collection consists of manuscripts and published materials.

Books by Harold W. Fairbanks

The Western United States: A Geographical Reader  Cover image

The Western United States: A Geographical Reader

Travel
History River Geography Discovery Earth Physiology United States Earthquake

The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic manner, but instead the attempt has been made to picture as graphically as may be some of its more striking and interesting physical f...