The baron in the Grand Canyon : Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West / Steven Rowan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowan, Steven W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartographers--United States--Biography.

Cartographers.

Explorers--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Explorers.

Germans--United States--Biography.

Germans.

Surveyors--United States--Biography.

Surveyors.

West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.

West (U.S.).

Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885.

Egloffstein, F. W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Other Title:

Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer of the American West.

Contents:

Preface

The severed bear's head

Franconia, Bavaria, and Prussia, 1824

1848

Egloffstein and Zwanziger, surveyors : St. Louis, 1849

1853

Solomon Carvalho's excellent adventure : with Fremont over the Rockies; Great Salt Lake City idyll

Views of Mount Shasta : to California with Beckwith, 1854

A new style of topographical drawing : Washington, DC, and the Pacific Railroad reports

The thoughts of God : up the Colorado with Ives, 1857

1858

The last plates : farewell to the West, 1861

1885

Abbreviations in the notes and bibliography

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index.

ISBN:

9780826272836

0826272835

OCLC:

868217771