Exploring With Fremont, The Private Diaries Of Charles Preuss, Cartographer For John C. Fremont On His First, Second, And Fourth Expeditions To The Far West

CHARLES PREUSS

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958, Norman

First Edition. Cloth. xxix.-162pp. Several illustrations. Map. An important record of a primary participant in most of Fremont's exploratory expeditions. Charles Preuss was a surveyor and cartographer who accompanied John C. Fremont on three of his five exploratory expeditions of the American west, including the expedition where he and Fremont were the first to record seeing Lake Tahoe from a mountaintop vantage point as they traversed what is now Carson Pass in February 1844. Preuss drew two important maps based on his records from Fremont's first two expeditions. Previous owners small name sticker at upper edge of front endpaper, else a fine, bright copy in a dust jacket with very slight edgewear to spine ends.