| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

Ferdinand V. Hayden: Entrepreneur of Science. By James G. Cassidy. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xxviii, 389 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8032-1507-X.)

This biography of Ferdinand V. Hayden is well named. The author's general approach is a sociological study of Hayden's entrepreneurship. As such, it becomes a social science case study of one of the most important figures in Gilded Age America, since Hayden spent more than twenty-five years exploring and surveying the American West, first as a scientist adjunct to U.S. Army topographical engineer expeditions in the Dakotas, Montana, and northern Wyoming, where he did his best scientific work. After the Civil War, as head of the U.S. Survey of Nebraska and finally as head of the Interior Department's U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories—one of the most substantially funded of federal agencies—he became the manager of a vast public enterprise. Hayden was an empire builder for science in an age of captains of industry—something this reviewer discerned long ago in labeling him "Gilded Age Explorer." . . .

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