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Strange genius : the life of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden / Mike Foster.
- Title
- Strange genius : the life of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden / Mike Foster.
- Author
- Foster, Mike, 1935-
- Publication
- Niwot, Colo, : Roberts Rinehart Publishers, c1994.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 443 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- "The legendary explorer who is said to have "put Yellowstone on the map," both figuratively and literally, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden is generally credited with having revealed the structure of western geology to both the scientific community and the public at large during the great surveys of the late nineteenth century ... But, as a tremendously self-absorbed man, an often insensitive friend, and an aggressive adversary, Hayden was more times than not his own worst enemy. This fascinating paradox is the subject of this major biography, the first ever of the man who, along with George Wheeler, John Wesley Powell, and Clarence King, conducted the great surveys of the American West."--Front flap
- Alternative Title
- Life of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-426) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1570980047
- LCCN
- ^^^94066097^
- OCLC
- 31807806
- SCSB-10235814
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library