Central route to the Pacific, from the valley of the Mississippi to California: journal of the expedition of E. F. Beale, Superintendant of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853

HEAP, GWINN HARRIS

Verlag: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.; London Trubner & Co., 1854

Beschreibung

Octavo. 136 pp, [32 p. ads], 13 lithographic plates., lacking map, as usual. Original green cloth. Rubbing and fading to boards. Contemporary signature to front pastedown. 2 plates are loose. Scattered foxing. E. F. Beale, the new Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the state of California, was sent west from Missouri in 1853 "to examine the Territories of New Mexico and Utah where their borders and those of California lie contiguous, and to ascertain whether lands existed there to which California Indians might be removed." Beale journeyed overland through northern Arizona, Utah and Nevada and arrived in Los Angeles in August of 1853; in this journal Beale's cousin Gwinn Heap gives detailed observations of the country traversed, much of which had never been previously described. This book provides one of the earliest detailed examinations of the "Central Route" from Missouri to the Pacific, and is an important document of Western expansion. Howes H-378. Sabin 31175. Streeter Sale 3177. Graff 1837. Wagner Camp 235. Cowan, p 273. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1412090008

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Titel: Central route to the Pacific, from the ...

Verlag: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.; London Trubner & Co.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1854

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good