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The great reconnaissance; soldiers, artists, and scientists on the frontier, 1848-1861

Title: The great reconnaissance; soldiers, artists, and scientists on the frontier, 1848-1861 / by Edward S. Wallace.
Author: Wallace, Edward S.
Publication: Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, [1955]

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Description

xii, 288 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliography.

Contents

Preface -- A Puritan on the border / [John Russell Bartlett] -- Collations and controversies ["The Great Western"] -- Apaches, engineers, and excursions [Mangas Colorado, Amiel Weeks Whipple, Inez Gonzalez] -- The grand circuit [Mexico, Henry Cheeves Pratt] -- A straight line east (L.S. Craig, Antoine Leroux) -- Full circle -- The final boundary settlement [James Gadsden, William Hemsley Emory] -- Probing for roads [John Mix Stanley, John W. Gunnison] -- Death in the mountains [John Charles Fremont; Old Bill Williams; Richard, Edward, Benjamin Kern] -- The first photographer [Solomon N. Carvalho, F. W. Egloffstein] -- The German Fenimore Cooper [Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen] -- High country and low comedy [James H. Simpson, John C. Tidball] -- The River of Mystery [Colorado River, Robert William Hale Hardy, George Horatio Derby] -- Lieutenant Ives goes up the great Colorado River [Joseph Christmas Ives] -- On to the Grand Canyon [Explorer, John Tipton] -- The Mormon war [Albert Sidney Johnston, Philip St. George Cooke, Jesse A. Gove, Thomas L. Kane, Mountain Meadows Massacre] -- Mountains and wolves [Randolph Barnes Marcy, Miguel Alona] -- Ships of the desert -- afloat and ashore [camels, Henry Constantine Wayne, Gwinn Harris Heap, David Dixon Porter, Supply -- Westward the course of camels [Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Edward L. Hartz, W. H. Echols] -- Epilogue.
Illustrations: Dighton Rock / Seth Eastman -- Military plaza at San Antonio, Texas / Arthur Schott -- Crossing the Pecos River / I. Rabuski -- Fort Yuma on the Colorado River / Carl Schuchard -- The Mission of San Diego / Henry C. Pratt -- Camp of Red River hunters / John Mix Stanley -- A section of Inscription Rock / Richard H. and Edward M. Kern -- Buffalo Dance of the Zuni Indians / R.H. Kern -- Navajo Indians Baldwin Ml̲lhausen -- Yampais Indians / R.H. Kern -- Mohave Indians / Baldwin Ml̲lhausen -- Co-Co-Pas Indians / Arthur Schott -- The Explorer steaming up the Colorado River / Balduin Ml̲lhausen -- The Hualpais Indians / Balduin Ml̲lhausen -- The Grand Canyon / F.W. Egloffstein -- Crossing the Rocky Mountains in winter / A.R. Waud -- Utah Indian prisoners / A. Fay -- Midshipman Beale -- George Horatio Derby -- Wrestling camel from Asia Minor / G.H. Heap -- Sidewinder rattlesnake / Gwinn Harris Heap -- "Char," Rio Blanco, Texas / C.B. Kennerly -- Prairie dog / J.H. Richard -- Little crane.

LCCN

55006537

OCLC

ocm00885354
885354
SCSB-587032

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Princeton University Library