----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hello all, and please excuse the extensive cross-posting. . . . Received the most recent Roberts Rinehart catalog today. They have announced the biography of Ferdinand Hayden, who conducted one of the major mapping efforts in the American West, will be published in December. Although biographies of Powell and King were done years ago, this is the first major published biographical work on Hayden. The announced title is "Strange Genius: The Life of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. For additional information, contact the publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers P.O. Box 666 Niwot, CO 80544 Linda Zellmer [log in to unmask]