Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north
Image Count:
1
Description:
Facing p. 136.
Subject (Geographic):
Pacific States, Rocky Mountains, United States --Exploring expeditions, United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, and West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hall, James, 1811-1898 and Torrey, John, 1796-1873
Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north
Image Count:
1
Description:
Facing p. 40.
Subject (Geographic):
Pacific States, Rocky Mountains, United States --Exploring expeditions, United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, and West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hall, James, 1811-1898 and Torrey, John, 1796-1873
Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north
Image Count:
1
Description:
Includes a profile of the route from the mouth of the Kansas to the Pacific by Capt. J. C. Fremont in 1843. and Inserted in back binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Pacific States, Rocky Mountains, United States --Exploring expeditions, United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, and West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hall, James, 1811-1898 and Torrey, John, 1796-1873
Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north
Image Count:
1
Description:
Facing p. 216.
Subject (Geographic):
Pacific States, Rocky Mountains, United States --Exploring expeditions, United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, and West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hall, James, 1811-1898 and Torrey, John, 1796-1873
Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Pacific States, Rocky Mountains, United States --Exploring expeditions, United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, and West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hall, James, 1811-1898 and Torrey, John, 1796-1873
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Geographic):
Rocky Mountains and Wind River Range (Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Engraving reproduces Albert Bierstadt's 1863 painting titled "Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak," which shows a Shoshone village beside a body of water below the peaks of the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains
Alternative Title:
Lander's Peak
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc47 866bi copy 1: Imperfect: Browned. On sheet 54 x 77 cm; mounted on linen., BEIN BrSides Zc47 866bi copy 2: State before title letters. Mounted on boards 61 x 88 cm., Title from caption below image., Signed within the image, lower right: ABierstadt 1863., and Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866, by Edward Bierstadt, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Engraving reproduces Albert Bierstadt's 1863 painting titled "Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak," which shows a Shoshone village beside a body of water below the peaks of the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains
Alternative Title:
Lander's Peak
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc47 866bi copy 1: Imperfect: Browned. On sheet 54 x 77 cm; mounted on linen., BEIN BrSides Zc47 866bi copy 2: State before title letters. Mounted on boards 61 x 88 cm., Title from caption below image., Signed within the image, lower right: ABierstadt 1863., and Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866, by Edward Bierstadt, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
