Andrew Ellicott: The Stargazer Who Defined America

This story is an important piece of American history and tells of a four year venture that fell on the shoulders of one man. His success would make a huge difference in the security and commerce of the struggling United States. The story involves the complex details of diplomacy in dealing with the dilatory Spanish, the technical and physical problems of measuring and marking a 530 mile line through dense woods and swamps and interacting with angry Indians through whose property they were t...