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

A popular history of the making of the Mason-Dixon Line. Originally surveyed to settle an 80 year-old boundary feud, the Line came to mark the boundary between free and slave states. The author also introduces the science of surveying, and reveals maRead More

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    THE FIRST POPULAR HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE

    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. In 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. Set 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.

    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

  • 0471385026
  • 9780471385028
  • Edwin Danson
  • 10 January 2001
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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