Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44 /
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| Format: | Government Document Map |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] : [Washington, D.C.] :
Gales and Seaton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
1845, [1975]
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| Item Description: | Facsimile. Relief shown by hachures. Originally published in report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. By Brevet Captain F.C. Fremont, of the Topographical Engineers, under the Orders of Col. F.F. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Printed by the order of the Senate of the United States. Washington. Gales and Seaton, Printers. 1845 (28th Cong., 2nd Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 174, Serial 461. Cited in Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861 ; volume 2, number 497. Includes a "Profile of the route from the North of Kansas to the Pacific by Capt. J.C. Fremont in 1843." "C-2b. Captain Fremont's published report of this first expedition with Kit Carson as guide, thru the South Wyoming Pass (1842) weakened the erroneous theory of the "Great American Desert" prepounded by Major S. Long in 1820. The rich farming lands of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma were dismissed as desert by a generation of Americans otherwise attracted by the promise of the West." Cartographic material. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 map ; 77 x 128 cm. |