George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S. Government Geologist

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For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) is both essential and hard to obtain. He was the force behind the first railroad in America, a pioneer in scientific agriculture, an essayist, poet, and novelist, a lobbyist, a linguist, and a daring diplomat who saved the king and queen of France from certain death. [Yet] his strongest tie was with geology. [This] biography is interesting, well researched and well written. It is a balanced study of a complex man who did so much work and generated such controversy." - Farth Sciences History "U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers, general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography." - Choice

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