May 5, 2000

With a Humanistic Bent, a Geographer Studies Grain Elevators, a River in Los Angeles, and College Towns

By PETER MONAGHAN

A recent Ph.D. who has a 'fascination with America' is making his mark on the discipline

Maps, rivers, and the great diversity of human settlements rolled around in Blake Gumprecht's mind for more than 30 years before he thought to make a career of them.

And he rolled around in them, too -- as an aspiring journalist, music producer, librarian, and mapmaker.

He shifted about the country from occupation to occupation, focus to focus, in the way

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