LEADER 03320oam 22005174a 450 001 9910150254403321 005 20240501153035.0 010 $a9780822981459 010 $a0822981459 035 $a(CKB)3710000000929602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4731369 035 $a(OCoLC)962156445 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54097 035 $a(Perlego)3118863 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000929602 100 $a20161021e20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aField Life $eScience in the American West during the Railroad Era /$fJeremy Vetter 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (513 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 1 $aIntersections: histories of environment, science, and technology in the anthropocene 300 $aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 311 08$a9780822944539 311 08$a0822944537 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 417-484) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. Making the field -- 2. Lay networks -- 3. Surveys -- 4. Quarries -- 5. Stations -- Epilogue. 330 $aField Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded. Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period--surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations--and this book explores the dynamics that underpinned each of them. Using two diverse case studies to animate each mode of practice, as well as the making of the field as a place for science, Field Life combines textured analysis of specific examples of field science on the ground with wider discussion of the commonalities in the practices of a diverse array of field sciences, including the earth and physical sciences, the life and agricultural sciences, and the human sciences. By situating science in its regional environmental context, Field Life analyzes the intersection between the cosmopolitan knowledge of science and the experiential knowledge of people living in the field. Examples of field science in the Plains and Rockies range widely: geological surveys and weather observing networks, quarries to uncover dinosaur fossils and archaeological remains, and branch agricultural experiment stations and mountain biological field stations. 606 $aScience$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 607 $aWest United States$2fast 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 676 $a385.0973 676 $a507.2078 700 $aVetter$b Jeremy$f1975-$01151316 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150254403321 996 $aField Life$92895792 997 $aUNINA