A pathfinder in the Southwest; the itinerary of Lieutenant A.W. Whipple during his explorations for a railway route from Fort Smith to Los Angeles in the years 1853 & 1854 / edited and annotated by Grant Foreman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817-1863.

Contributor:

Foreman, Grant, 1869-1953, editor.

Series:

American exploration and travel

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography.

Southwest, New--Discovery and exploration.

New Southwest.

Physical Description:

xv, 298 pages, 1 leaf : frontispiece, plates, portraits, folded map. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1941.

Notes:

"Whipple's itinerary, which alone is reproduced here, is to be seen in the Report of exploration for a railway route, near the thirty-fifth parallel of north latitude, from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, by Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, corps of topographical engineers, assisted by Lieutenant J. C. Ives, etc., 1853-4, being volume III of the Pacific survey reports, 33 Cong., 2 sess., Sen. ex. doc. no. 78." - p.23.

"First edition."

Bibliography: pages [281]-286.

OCLC:

233440