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Within the scorching summer time of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and fantastic scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to see a unusual total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new world. Another - an adventuresome woman astronomer - fought to verify that science was not anathema to femininity. And a megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his pumps, sought to test his clinical bona fides and light the entire world through his revelations. David Baron brings to three-dimensional life these three opponents - Wayne Craig Watson, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison - and thrillingly re-creates the fierce jockeying of 19th-century American astronomy. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age group of the previous days of the Crazy Western world comes alive as never before. A magnificent portrayal of America's dawn as a clinical superpower, North american Eclipse depicts a nation that viewed to the skies to show its towering ambition and expose its latent genius.
