The Hayden Expedition of 1871
"As the object of the expedition is to secure as much information as possible, both scientific and practical, you will give your attention to the geological, mineralogical, zoological, botanical, and agricultural resources of the country. You will collect as ample material as possible for the illustration of your final reports, such as sketches, sections, photographs, etc." --Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior [2]
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Student interview with Lee Whittlesey. [3]
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"After his appointment, one of Hayden's first tasks was to recruit members for his survey team. He had no dearth of candidates. This became his largest single division survey with 32 men, plus a company of Cavalry to serve as a military escort, 48 animals, 5 wagons and two ambulances. . . . Early on Hayden made sure that seven of his loyal and experienced survey regulars were on board. As he did for his 1870 survey, Hayden also obtained the services of several highly qualified experts in botany, zoology and paleontology to exame specimens collected by the survey team and to write accounts of their findings for Hayden's survey report." (4)
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- Merrill, Marlene. With Hayden in the Field : a Case Study Based on Unpublished Letters and Diaries from the 1871 Yellowstone Survey. 1993. Yellowstone Research Center Archives, p. 3.
- Aubrey L. Haines, Yellowstone National Park: Its Exploration and Establishment(Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior National Park Service, 1974), accessed February 15, 2013, http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online%5Fbooks/haines1.
- "Interview with Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone Park Historian," interview by author, October 12, 2012.
- Merrill, 5-6.