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Science 19 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5503, p. 441
DOI: 10.1126/science.1058037
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Westward Impulse Embodied

A review by Stephen J. Pyne

A River Running West The Life of John Wesley Powell
Donald Worster
Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 687 pp. $35. ISBN 0-19-509991-5.

Worster's biography of the explorer and scientist who became a patriarch of science-based government bureaus and the conservation of the American West places Powell and his fervor for reform in the context of the United States of his times.
The author is in the Biology and Society Program, Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Box 1501, Tempe, AZ 85306, USA. E-mail: stephen.pyne{at}asu.edu

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