Landmark Enterprises, 1987, Hardcover (Quarter Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First

Gilt tooled red cloth backstrip with red cloth sides, illustrated in black and white. Light shelf wear to wrapper and a little discolouration to top edge of text block, but contents otherwise clean and sound. - The first full biography about the distinguished US surveyor-inventor and his sons. 75 Illustrations, references. It was June 1840 when U.S. surveyor William Austin Burt first entered Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a wilderness that, according to Henry Clay, "stretched beyond the remotest settlement of the United States". Neither Burt nor his sons could have envisioned the role they would play in helping shape the future of this area. William Austin would soon discover a new source of wealth for Michigan and the nation, and the event would confirm the value of Burt's unique invention for surveying the expanding U.S. Frontier, the solar compass. His son John would become a leader in the growth and development in the Upper Peninsula, particularly Marquette County. William Austin was on the Michigan Territorial Council, and in 1833, named associate judge for Macomb County Circuit Court. In that same year, at age 41, he received his first contract as a deputy surveyor and began surveying public lands. Size: Quarto. 188 pages. Category: Geography & Maps; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 091084531X. ISBN/EAN: 9780910845311.