G. Arthur Cooper - Field notes and maps from Glass Mountains, West Texas, also Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas, 1970

Imagine taking a road trip, but instead of seeing the sights, you're taking geological samples—and then trying to send them home. G. Arthur Cooper's 1970 travels through New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas are just that, a months-long car journey throughout the central and southwestern United States, and punctuated by period problems with shipping his specimens home by freight train. Get a closer look at his notes with your fellow volunpeers! Learn more about this geologist and curator through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collection "G. Arthur Cooper Papers, 1923-1993 and undated,with material from 1878 to 1892."