Ferdinand Hayden's Influences
Early Influences on Hayden"The business side of natural history before the Civil War was precarious at best, and the life of a naturalist insecure and uncertain." [2]
Naturalists of Hayden's time found expeditions willing to accommodate them, sometimes with fur traders, sometimes funded by railroads, but often funded through topographical expeditions with the military. *click box to enlarge photo and text*
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1871 Expedition InfluencesIn planning his dream expedition to Yellowstone, Hayden traded favors with Nathaniel Langford, Jay Cooke, and A.B. Nettleton.
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nathaniel Langford, 1832-1911 |
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- Mike Foster, Strange Genius: The Life of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1994), 81.
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- Mike Foster, Wonderland, 74.
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- Marlene Merrill, Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 11.
- Black, 79.
- Langford, Nathaniel Pitt, Nathaniel Pitt Langford and Family Papers. Minnesota Historical Society. As Reproduced Here: Http://www.secretyellowstone.com/images/people/nathaniel_langford.JPG
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- Nathaniel Pitt Langford, Diary of the Washburn Expedition: To the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 (St. Paul? Minn.: Nathaniel Pitt Langford, 1905), xxix.
- Mike Foster, Wonderland, 202-203.
- Jay Cooke, Stone Laboratory, Ohio State, Gibralter Island, accessed February 15, 2013, http://stonelab.osu.edu/about/jay-cooke.
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- M. John. Lubetkin, Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), 75-76.
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- M. John. Lubetkin, 76.
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