Drawing the line: how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America
Science and technology, United States history, History
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Surveyor-historian Danson recreates the lives and times of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. He appraises the accomplishments of the two British surveyors who endured the hardships of the North American wilderness between 1763 and 1767 to settle an eighty-year-old boundary… dispute between the Penns of Pennsylvania and the Calverts of Maryland. 2001