| For the twenty-two year old Ernest Ingersoll (18521946), the prospect of joining one of the divisions of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden's survey of Colorado as a naturalist for the 1874 season must have seemed the opportunity of a lifetime. He would not be disappointed. Though the fieldwork was often routine and the regimen of camp and saddle fatiguing, the men fortunate enough to serve with Hayden (18291887) found themselves part of a grand and romantic adventure into the little-known regions of the Rocky Mountain West, an adventure whose unfolding story would in a very short time engage the interest and imagination of the entire nation. |
| The Hayden Survey, or the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories as it was officially named, was the largest and most ambitious of the four great surveys that between 1867 and 1879 surveyed, mapped, and systematically studied the vast areas now embraced by California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, and New Mexico. Under the separate commands of Hayden, Clarence King, George M. Wheeler, and John Wesley Powell, notable figures all, these surveys brought into the West cadres of well-trained civilian scientistsbotanists, geologists, zoologists, paleontologists, ornithologists, entomologists, and ethnologists. These scientists greatly supplemented and enhanced the work of the topographers by reading the geological history of the land and identifying its natural resources, collecting and classifying its flora and fauna, and recording and interpreting the indigenous Indian culture they encountered. Singularly important, because of the immediacy of their impact, was the presence of photographers such as William H. Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, E. O. Beaman, and John K. Hillers, who through their artistry conveyed to an eager and appreciative audience its first authentic introduction to the natural wonders of the West and |
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