Abstract
A half-century after his death, Carl O. Sauer’s inspirational presence continues to hover over the discipline of geography, his legacy unmatched by any other twentieth-century geographer of standing. Born on Christmas Eve, 1889, of German immigrant stock in Warrenton, Missouri, at the time a farming community some 50 miles west of St. Louis, Sauer’s European roots did much to shape him, as did being raised a Christian by deeply religious parents. Upon arrival in California in 1923, Sauer was keen to engage firsthand the America that lay south of the Río Grande, but that would have to wait. He had unfinished business, of sorts, to settle with the American Midwest that had once been home but no longer was, his penchant to move on as much intellectual as it was residential, if not more so.
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