BOOK REVIEW: An Expedition to Ramsey Canyon: The 1896 Field Journal of Ornithologist Harry S. Swarth

Abstract

 Christopher Swarth’s publication of his ornithologist grandfather’s journal of his fist trip to Arizona, then called the Arizona Territory, transports the reader back to the 1800s and to a time when birding and fild ornithology were much diffrent from today. Ths era was a time of great ornithological discovery and when little was known about Arizona’s unique avifauna. Ths slender volume of Harry S. Swarth’s journal is not only a readable scientifi document of a bygone era, it remains a relevant description for comparison to the avifauna of Ramsey Canyon in the 21 st century. Th book is organized into three sections.