Mapping the Frontier

Rufus Harvey Sargent was born in Sedgewick, Maine, in 1875, but his life and workwith the U.S. Geological Survey took him far from his home town on the coast. He explored and mapped some of the most remote parts of the world, including sections of Alaska and China that no one had ever set foot in. He completed the first aerial survey of Alaska in 1925-26, and in 1947 the Department of the Interior awarded Sargent its Medal for Distinguished Service. He died in 1951, in Washington, D.C.

Foreword by Blue Hill Public Library
Prologue by Robert M. Sargent
1 Childhood in Sedgwick, 1875–1889
2 A Passion for Exploration, 1890–1895
3 The National Zoo, Washington, D.C., 1895–1898
4 Joining the Survey: South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, 1898–1901
5 First Chief of Party: Glacier National Park, Montana, 1901–1903
6 The China Expedition, 1903–1904
7 Mapping and Marriage: Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, 1904–1906
8 Distant Journeys: Alaska, Mexico, 1906–1907
9 Alaskan Summers, Washington Winters, 1907–1909
10Topographer in Charge of theAlaskan Branch: Matanuska Valley and Kenai Peninsula, 1908–1911
11Alaska’s Matanuska Valley and Iliamna Bay, 1913–1914
Epilogue, 1915–1951
Alaska Today
Glossary & Bibliography
INDEX