This book launches a new venture in geography by two distinctive scholar-entrepreneurs of America. Professor Mather has a hankering for establishing geographical societies wherever he lands. Long ago he established the venerable Pierce County Geographical Society, America's oldest county geographical society. When he retired to the Southwest in 1983, he founded the New Mexico Geographical Society which has become a mecca for professional geographers as they course through the country. George Thompson, founder and president of the Center for American Places and founder and director o