The Merriam Expedition to San Francisco Mountain: Life Zones and the Founding of Ecology

Clinton Hart Merriam had never seen San Francisco Mountain until he arrived at Flagstaff, Arizona Territory, "a station on the Atlantic and Pacific Railway," on July 26, 1889. 1 But the more than 12,000-foot-high mountain was the object of his trip.Three days later he and his wife, Elizabeth, along with another scientist, later a third and fourth, as well as a cook, encamped at Little Spring at the base of the mountain's north face.