Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and '20, by Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War, Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long, from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party
by James, Edwin
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Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1823. Hardcover. Very good. Two text volumes, no atlas. 8vo, pp 503, 442, xcviii (including Astronomical and Meterological Record and Vocabularies of Indian Languages), in contemporary full calf bindings with red and black spine labels. Both volumes show some old pale dampstaining, but still a very good, clean set overall. This important government-sponsored expedition, led by Major Stephen Harriman Long of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers, was tasked with conducting a military and scientific reconnaissance of the central plains for the first time. The part included men with training in geology, botany, zoology, and ethnology, as well as a naturalist, an artist, and a topographer. Eight guides and hunters and a seven-man military escort completed the twenty-two man detachment. Edwin James served as botanist, geologist, and surgeon. Wagner Camp 25:1, Howes J-41, Streeter 1783.
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- Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and '20, by Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War, Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long, from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party
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- James, Edwin
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very good
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- H.C. Carey and I. Lea
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1823
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