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Report of the Quartermaster General.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection AC85 Un33Q 856r atlas text
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Quartermaster's Department.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latter Day Saints.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- pages 145-168 ; 23 cm & atlas (35 leaves of plates (chiefly folded) : maps)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : C. Wendell, printer, 1856.
- Notes:
- Caption title.
- Extracted from the Report of the Secretary of War for 1855, issued as a part of House Executive document no. 1, pt. 2 (34th Congress, 1st session, 1855-1856). The accompanying atlas constitutes pt. 4 of the same document. On pages 152-168 are two letters of Capt. Rufus Ingalls reporting on an overland march to the Pacific coast with a winter stopover at Salt Lake City in the years 1854-1855. Map no. [30] in the atlas is based on a map made by Ingalls of the route taken.
- Wagner-Camp 256; Graff 2107.
- Local Notes:
- In Library's copy, the plates have been removed from the atlas and flattened. A detailed listing of the plates is shelved with them.
- OCLC:
- 77726336
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