George Reynolds was the man who held the whole thing together. Already around fifty when he first arrived in Persia in September of 1901, he would proceed to carry out an unusually difficult enterprise under endlessly trying circumstances. He was at one and the same time engineer, geologist, manager, field representative, diplomat, linguist, and anthropologist. In addition, he had a most valuable knack for jerry-rigging machinery when parts broke or were simply missing. He was taciturn, tough, and tenacious.
