The Army Surveys Of Gold Rush California. Reports Of The Topographical Engineers 1849-1851

ANDERSON, GARY CLAYTON AND LAURA LEE ANDERSON [EDITED BY]

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Tan cloth, titles printed in black ink on the front cover and spine, 256 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, footnotes, bibliography, index. Included are two maps of Fremont's map of Oregon and Upper California, 1848 and The Colorado River, 1850, may be found folded and inserted at the rear of this volume. Much on California and the discoveries of gold along with reports from the topographical engineers. George Horatio Derby’s reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson, William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells, and Erasmus Darwin Keyes. These documents offer fine firsthand views of the environment and natural resources. The effects of disease on Native and white populations is also discussed. As new, unread copy without dust jacket as issued.

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