Richard Urquhart Goode diaries, 1883-1888.

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Richard Urquhart Goode diaries, 1883-1888.

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The collection consists of two volumes of diaries kept during Goode's 1883 participation in the Northern Transcontinental Survey in central Washington Territory; together with a letter (1888) from National Geographic Society. Upon his departure from Viginia, his fiance decided to not correspond with him while he was away on the survey. In order for her to understand what he was doing, he determined to keep a diary which she could read on his return.

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Goode, Richard Urquhart, 1858-1903

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Joined Engineering Corps with the U.S. Army in 1878; topographer with U.S. Geological Survey in 1879'; attached the Northern Transcontinental Survey, participated in a survey of portions of Chelan, Kittitas, Yakima, and Walla Walla counties in central Washington Territory from May through November 1883; 1889 appointed geographer for the U.S. Geological Survey with special charge of surveys in the Pacific Coast states of California, Oregan and Washington; b. 1838; d. 1903. From the de...

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E.W. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological Survey's spirit leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912. From the guide to the United States Geologic Survey photograph collection, 1892-1912, 1898-1902, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) First organized as a branch in 1889, the Topographic Division was established in 1947. From the description of Records of the Topographic Division. (Unknown). World...

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