| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

James G. Cassidy. Ferdinand V. Hayden: Entrepreneur of Science. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2000. Pp. xxv, 389. $55.00.

Ferdinand Hayden was, arguably, next to John Wesley Powell one of the giants of post-Civil War scientific investigation of the trans-Mississippi West. But as James G. Cassidy argues in this richly detailed new biography, Hayden's role in the creation of the United States Geological Survey has been undervalued, if not misunderstood. Indeed, Cassidy goes so far as to suggest that Hayden has been one of "history's losers," and his book consequently serves as a kind of corrective. 1

Cassidy examines Hayden—both the man and his work—through the lens of scientific entrepreneurialism. When the thirty-eight-year-old naturalist was handed the job of surveying the Nebraska Territory in 1867, he jumped at the opportunity of doing field work in the West and exploited the situation to the fullest. Over the next decade, his infectious zeal and singleness of purpose translated into an ever ambitious, ever broadening survey of the American West. The Hayden survey, according to Cassidy, had few parallels, and it provided promising information about how the region could best be developed. . . .

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