Elliott Coues Naturalist and Frontier Historian

Elliott Coues (1842-99) was one of America's most renowned but least understood ornithologists and historians--as well as a naturalist, anatomist, taxonomist, writer and editor, army surgeon on the American frontier, occultist, and the youngest person ever to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The late Paul Russell Cutright was a professor of biology at Beaver College in Pennsylvania Michael J. Brodhead, professor emeritus of history at the University of Nevada at Reno,Cutright, Paul R. is the author of 'Elliott Coues Naturalist and Frontier Historian', published 2001 under ISBN 9780252069871 and ISBN 0252069870.