![]() This rare celestial event-a total solar eclipse-offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system’s most enduring riddles, and it prompted a clutch of enterprising scientists to brave the wild frontier in a grueling race to the Rocky Mountains. On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon’s shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR) brings to life the momentous eclipse that enthralled a nation and thrust American science onto the world stage. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Yearįinalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction)īooklist Editors’ Choice (Science & Technology) Winner of the AIP Science Communication AwardĪn Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)Ī St. ![]() Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing ![]()
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