Hayden Geological Survey of 1871

The known under Hayden expedition expedition was part of the exploration of the West of the U.S., under the direction of the geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. She led in 1871 in the area now Yellowstone National Park and in-depth knowledge of the Folsom Expedition of 1869 and the Washburn - Langford - Doane Expedition of 1870. Located in the expedition specialists of different disciplines involved. The aim was to explore the flora, fauna and geological conditions, they must be noted in pictures and photos and to identify possible good access routes. Hayden stood for the expedition, a budget of 40,000 U.S. dollars. 1872 and 1878 led Hayden other, less known, research trips in the Yellowstone area through. As early as 1859 he led an expedition into the Yellowstone area, but they had to stop after a short time unsuccessful due to heavy snow fall.

History of the Expedition

The Hayden expedition began on 11 June 1871 in Ogden (Utah ) with 34 men and seven cars to the north. Among the participants were the painter Thomas Moran and photographer William Henry Jackson, who held the landscape of the Yellowstone region for the first time. So far, the stories had been considered by the geysers and other volcanogenic objects as implausible stories. This changed with the photos and pictures of the two men.

Almost simultaneously sent General Philip H. Sheridan, who was very impressed by Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doanes report of his trip last year, Hauptmann ( Captain ) John W. Barlow and Captain David P. Heap with a team in the Yellowstone area. They had hired a photographer, Thomas J. Hine. They launched on July 2, of Chicago. Two weeks later, they met with the Hayden Expedition and continued on their way to a large extent continued in common. Every now and then, the groups and explored different areas divided.

The Hayden expedition entered the area now known park in the north and moved south, partly following the Yellowstone River, up to Yellowstone Lake. There, the participants built a boat, the "Anna", with which they went to the island. Anna was the first boat of the Anglo-Americans on the Yellowstone Lake. From the north shore of the lake, the expedition turned into the sequence to the west and penetrated into the lower and upper Geyser Basin before, in the area of present-day Madison and Old Faithful. They were particularly impressed by the Grand Geyser, to which they gave the name. From there we went south to Shoshone Lake and east again to Yellowstone Lake, she worked around the south. Along the Lamar River, they returned back to the north, crossed the Yellowstone River on Jack Baronetts bridge and left on 26 August, the current park area on the same route as they had entered it. On 30 August they reached Fort Ellis, where the expedition ended. A day later also Barlow and his troupe in Fort Ellis, a.

After the expedition

Barlow's troops traveled back to Chicago. A little later, on October 8, broke there, the great fire that almost vernichetete all the negatives of Hine among others. All the more significant were now the photos of Jackson and the pictures of Moran. They impressed the U.S. Parlamentier so strong that they with the Yellowstone National Park founded the first national park in the world on 1 March 1872.

The success of the expedition was overshadowed by the suicide of senior topographer Anton Schoenborn in Omaha on its way back to Washington DC

Next year, the Congress said U.S. $ 75,000 for a larger -scale expedition to the Yellowstone area, also under the direction of Hayden.

Participant

  • Robert Adams, Jr. ( Botany Wizard)
  • G.N. Allen ( botanist )
  • J. W. Beaman ( meteorologist )
  • Edward Campbell Carrington ( zoologist )
  • Chester M. Dawes ( assistant)
  • George B. Dixon (Photographic assistant)
  • J. W. Duncan ( assistant)
  • Henry Wood Elliot ( Artist )
  • Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden ( geologist; 1829-1887 )
  • F. J. Huse ( assistant)
  • William Henry Jackson ( Photographer, 1843-1942 )
  • William B. Logan ( Secretary)
  • Thomas Moran ( painter, 1837-1926 )
  • C. De V. Negley ( assistant)
  • Albert Charles Pealse ( mineralogist )
  • A. J. Smith ( topography Wizard)
  • James Stevenson ( Director)
  • Cyrus Thomas ( Agricultural Economic statisticians )
  • Charles S. Turnbull (Medic )
  • 20 hunters, guides, workers, cooks and packers
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