A British Butterfly Collector on the Texas Frontier

Download or read book A British Butterfly Collector on the Texas Frontier written by James Kaye and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist is a young British butterfly collector who, working for the British Museum in London, collected the little-known butterflies and moths at the time in Texas in 1840. The collector teamed with a Spanish seorita to collect them across Texas when traveling in an ox-drawn covered wagon over rough and muddy roads and through the ranges of hostile Native Americans. The book is about their collections and, at times, hazardous adventures. The text is a natural history of the butterfly and moth species pictured. The book is also a history of pioneer Texas of the 1840s as well as the ethnology of Comanche Indians.