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
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Description:
In four sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately by the cataloger., Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West., and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions, in at least one case on the same page.
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
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
