Walking Boots & Pleistocene Geology: Biography of Frank Leverett (Leveretts in the New World)

Frank Leverett (1859-1943) was a famous American geologist, best known for walking, mapping, and describing the features of a vast swath of the upper Midwest of the USA. To do this he walked over 100,000 miles, making careful observations of the plant life and how it was related to the ground beneath. He was especially concerned with what the glaciers of the Pleistocene, also known as the Ice Age, had done to the land as they had receded. This book tells the story from before his birth in the Iowa Territory at the cusp of the Civil War, through his geology career and up past his death, in the middle of World War II. It includes letters that he wrote particularly to his Cousin Will, the author's great grandfather.