Expedition to the Southwest : an 1845 reconnaissance of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma

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Expedition to the Southwest : an 1845 reconnaissance of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma / James William Abert ; with an introduction and notes by H. Bailey Carroll ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by John Miller Morris.

Abert, J. W. (James William), 1820-1897 (Author). Carroll, H. Bailey (Horace Bailey), 1903-1966 (Added Author).

Summary:

Lt. Abert of the United States Army Topographical Engineers set out from Bent's Fort to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of the Canadian River region of the southern plains. Possessing a great eye for detail, Lt. Abert provided clear, graphic decriptions of birds, plants, animals, and the countryside, as well as details about the Comanches and the Kiowa. Lt. Abert's journal is one of the concluding records of the Anglo-American exploration of the American West begun in 1804 by Lewis and Clark.

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ISBN: 0803259352 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780803259355 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: xi, 121 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1999]

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General Note:: Previously published: Gúadal P'a. Canyon, Tex. : Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1941, which itself was a republication of Message from the President of the United States ... communicating a report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Abert on the upper Arkansas. Washington, 1846.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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