Lieutenant Emory reports : a reprint of Lieutenant W.H. Emory's Notes of a military reconnoissance

United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. (Author). Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887 (Added Author). United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. Notes of a military reconnoissance. (Added Author).

Record details

Physical Description: print
208 pages : facsimile, maps ; 21 cm.
Edition: Paperbound ed.
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1968, ©1951.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Printed as "Sen. executive doc. no. 7, 30th Congress, first session," and then republished ... by H. Long and Brother, New York, 1848.

The present ed. includes a facsim. of the title page of the Long ed. and the text of that ed. with minor revisions.

Formatted Contents Note:

Orders, instructions, explanatory remarks -- Bent's Fort to the Raton Crossing ... from a Las Vegas housetop ... occupation of Santa Fe ... Santa Domingo Pueblo -- Bernalillo ... Fandango at Tome ... middle reaches of the Rio Grande ... 'Navajoe' [Navajo] raiders ... Kit Carson arrives ... Red Sleeve, the Apache -- The Gila River and the Dry Arroyos ... Steeple Rock is named prehistoric ruin ... Apache traders ... Among the "Pimos" [Pimas] and Maricopas -- Junction of the Gila and the Colorado ... the desert ... across Imperial Valley ... arrival at Warner's rancheria ... bathing pools at Agua Caliente -- Battle of San Pasqual ... rescue ... arrival at San Diego ... San Luis Rey ... fighting at the San Gabriel ... Los Angeles occupied ... final observation -- Notes.