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Author: [Kearny, Stephen Watts]
Title: Report of a Summer Campaign to the Rocky mountains, &c., in 1845 [In] Message From the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the First Session of the Twenty-ninth Congress
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Ritchie & Heiss
Date Published: 1845
Description:

91; 893 pp. Folding map and seven folding charts. (8vo) period full sheep, morocco labels.

Significant report contained within the Message from the President of the United States (James K. Polk), being a portion of the Report of the Commanding General of the Army (Winfield Scott). Wagner-Camp notes that "Pages 214-17 contain abstracts of journals kept by Lieutenants Turner and Franklin during the expedition. The party left Fort Leavenworth on May 18, 1845, traveled up the North Platte River to Fort Laramie, crossed over South Pass to the Green River, and returned by way of Bent's Fort to Fort Leavenworth on August 24. Pages 217-20 contain a report from Capt. E.V. Sumner on a trip made from Fort Atkinson to Traverse des Sioux and Devil's Lake for the purpose of preventing the Red River halfbreeds' annual hunt from encroaching on United States Territory. The "Map of the Route Pursued by the Late Expedition under the command of Col. W.S. Kearny, U.S. 1st Dragoons, by W.B. Franklin, Lieut. Corps of Topl. Engs. Attached to the Expedition," 20x33 cm., is listed as Wheat, Transmississippi, 495. Wagner-Camp 117.

Binding worn, hinges cracked; light foxing and browning; very good.