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In Field Life, Jeremy Vetter covers that significant period in the second half of the nineteenth century which saw both the rise of the railroad and the rise of modern American science. Surprisingly, no one has looked at the railroad and the West as an enviro-technical system, and it is a welcomed addition to such an analytical approach. Vetter also makes a broader methodological point for the need to advance regional approaches to the history of science. For Vetter, geography matters. He adds significantly to the spatial turn in the history of science by showing how the sciences practiced in the American West all have environmental histories to them. Michael Reidy, Montana State University

In Field Life, Jeremy Vetter covers that significant period in the second half of the nineteenth century which saw both the rise of the railroad and the rise of modern American science. Surprisingly, no one has looked at the railroad and the West as an enviro-technical system, and it is a welcomed addition to such an analytical approach. Vetter also makes a broader methodological point for the need to advance regional approaches to the history of science. For Vetter, geography matters. He adds significantly to the spatial turn in the history of science by showing how the sciences practiced in the American West all have environmental histories to them. -Michael Reidy, Montana State University

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Jeremy Vetter is associate professor of history at the University of Arizona.

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