Life Among the Texas Flora by Minetta Altgelt Goyne
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Life Among the Texas Flora by Minetta Altgelt Goyne
This book came out in 1991, and the subtitle is Ferdinand Lindheimer's Letters to George Engelmann.
In this book, Minetta shares the treasure of these letters between two marvelous 19th-century botanists. In 1979, Minetta was asked to translate 32 letters between Ferdinand Lindheimer, the father of Texas botany, and George Engelmann, who helped establish the Missouri Botanical Garden and specialized in the Flora of the western half of the United States. Deciphering, organizing, and analyzing the Lindheimer Englemann correspondence took Minetta over a decade.
This 236-page book is a fascinating look at Texas frontier life and botany through the eyes of the German-American botanist Ferdinand Lindheimer.
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