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050 00 $aF157.B7$bD36 2001
082 00 $a974.8/802$221
100 1 $aDanson, Edwin,$d1948-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00037078
245 10 $aDrawing the line :$bHow Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America /$cEdwin Danson.
260 $aNew York :$bJohn Wiley,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $aviii, 232 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-221) and index.
520 1 $a"The Mason-Dixon line - surely the most famous surveyors' line ever drawn - represents one of the greatest and most difficult scientific achievements of its time. But behind this significant triumph is a thrilling story, one that has thus far eluded both historians and surveyors.
520 8 $aIn this engrossing narrative, professional surveyor Edwin Danson takes us on a fascinating journey with Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two gifted and exuberant English surveyors, through the fields and forests of eighteenth-century America. Vividly describing life in the backwoods and the hardships and dangers of frontier surveying, Drawing the Line discloses for the first time in 250 years many hitherto unknown surveying methods, revealing how Mason and Dixon succeeded where the best American surveyors of the period failed. In accessible, ordinary language, Danson masterfully throws the first clear light on the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line.
520 8 $aSet in the social and historical context of pre-Revolutionary America, this book is a spellbinding account of one of the great and historic achievements of its time."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aMason-Dixon Line$xHistory.
651 0 $aPennsylvania$xBoundaries$zMaryland$xHistory.
651 0 $aMaryland$xBoundaries$zPennsylvania$xHistory.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zPennsylvania.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85052075
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zMaryland.
600 10 $aMason, Charles,$d1728-1786.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84064657
600 10 $aDixon, Jeremiah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84064747
650 0 $aSurveying$zPennsylvania$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSurveying$zMaryland$xHistory$y18th century.
852 00 $bglx$hF157.B7$iD36 2001