Report upon the Colorado River of the West : explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in charge.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.

Ives, J. C., author.

Contributor:

Newberry, J. S. (John Strong), 1822-1892, writer of supplementary textual content.

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888, writer of supplementary textual content.

Torrey, John, 1796-1873, writer of supplementary textual content.

Thurber, George, 1821-1890, writer of supplementary textual content.

Engelmann, George, 1809-1884, writer of supplementary textual content.

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887, writer of supplementary textual content.

Young, J. J., illustrator.

Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905, illustrator.

Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885, illustrator.

Series:

Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 36th Congress, 1st session, unnumbered.

Indigenous Peoples of North America.

United States. 36th Congress, 1st Session, 1859-1860. Senate. Executive document ; unnumbered

Indigenous Peoples of North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography--American.

Discoveries in geography.

Geology--Rocky Mountains.

Geology.

Botany--Rocky Mountains.

Botany.

Birds--Rocky Mountains.

Birds.

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Description and travel.

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico).

Southwest, New--Description and travel.

Southwest, New.

United States--Discovery and exploration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings), 33 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Other Title:

Report upon the Colorado River of the West

Contents:

Letter to the officer in charge of the Office of Explorations and Surveys / J.C. Ives

pt. 1. General report

pt. 2. Hydrographic report

pt. 3. Geological report / by Dr. J.S. Newberry, Geologist to the Expedition

pt. 4. Botany / by Professors Gray, Torrey, Thurber, and Dr. Engelmann

pt. 5. Zoology [list of birds collected on the Colorado Expedition] / by Professor S.F. Baird, Smithsonian Institution

Appendix A. Remarks upon the astronomical observations ; Remarks upon the barometric observations

Appendix B. List of camps, with distances, altitudes, latitudes, and longitudes, etc.

Appendix C. Barometric and meteorological observations

Appendix D. Remarks upon the construction of the maps.

Notes:

"By order of the Secretary of War."

Also issued as House of Representatives executive document, no. 90, for the same session.

Part 1: 131 pages; part 2: 14 pages ; part 3: 154, [6] pages ; part 4: 30 pages ; part 5: 6, 31, [1] pages.

Some illustrations drawn by Mr. J.J. Young from sketches by Messrs. Mollhausen and Egloffstein.

Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.

OCLC:

899259136