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Drawing the Line : How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America

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ISBN13: 9780471385028
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THE FIRST POPULAR HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE

The Mason-Dixon line-undoubtedly the most famous surveyors’ line ever drawn-represents probably the most greatest and most difficult scientific achievements of its time. But at the back of this significant triumph is a thrilling story, one that has to this point eluded both historians and surveyors. On this engrossing narrative, professional surveyor Edwin Danson takes us on an interesting journey with Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two gifted and exuberant English surveyors, through the fields and forests of eighteenth-century The us. 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 most efficient American surveyors of the period failed. In accessible, atypical language, Danson masterfully throws the first clear light at the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line. Set in the social and historical context of pre-Revolutionary The us, this book is a spellbinding account of probably the most great and historic achievements of its time.

Advance Praise for Drawing the Line

“Drawing the Line combines a fast-moving story, a human drama, and a clear account of surveying in the era of George Washington. An intriguing interaction of politics and science.”-CHARLES ROYSTER, Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University, and Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History
ISBN13: 9780471385028
Condition: New
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