Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, Vol. XLIV (1971), including Lieutenant A.W. Whipple's Railroad Reconnaissance Across the Panhandle of Texas in 1853

Archambeau, Ernest R. (editor)

Verlag: The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1971

PANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. XLIV (1971), including Lieutenant A.W. Whipple's Railroad Reconnaissance Across the Panhandle of Texas in 1853, edited by Ernest R. Archambeau, maps. BOOK CONDITION: fine. The text block is in fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog-ears. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The wraps are in fine condition. 8 ¾ x 6, 153 pages, 11 ounces. XX [Wikipedia] Amiel Weeks Whipple (October 21, 1817 - May 7, 1863) was an American military officer and topographical engineer. He served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War, where he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Among his many survey assignments for the US War Department, he participated in the difficult survey of the new United States and Mexico boundary and led the survey of a possible transcontinental railroad route along the thirty-fifth parallel from Arkansas to Los Angeles. Whipple was born in Greenwich, Massachusetts. He grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, where his father owned an inn. He was teaching school at Concord in 1834 when he applied to the United States Military Academy at West Point. After he was turned down by the academy, he attended Amherst College until 1837 when he was finally accepted to West Point. Whipple graduated fifth in the class of 1841. His early career included surveying the Patapsco River, sounding and mapping the approaches to New Orleans, and surveying Portsmouth Harbor. From 1844 to 1849 he was assigned to a survey of the northeastern boundary of the United States, serving under James Duncan Graham. In 1848 Whipple was assigned to the United States Boundary Commission, tasked with surveying the new boundary between the US and Mexico resulting from the Mexican-American War. In 1853 Congress authorized the Pacific Railroad Surveys to select the best route for a transcontinental railroad. Whipple was directed to lead one of those surveys along the 35th parallel from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Los Angeles. The Whipple expedition left Fort Smith on July 15, 1853, with a group of seventy men including soldiers, teamsters, and scientists. Whipple's party made good progress through Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), the Texas panhandle and the New Mexico Territory, reaching Albuquerque on October 5. After Albuquerque, they were joined by frontiersman Antoine Leroux who helped to guide the surveyors through the most difficult part of the journey to California. They reached California on February 7 after a near-disastrous crossing of the Colorado River then crossed the Mojave Desert and reached Los Angeles on March 20, 1854. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002662

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Titel: Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, Vol. ...
Verlag: The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society
Erscheinungsdatum: 1971
Einband: Soft cover
Zustand: Fine
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