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21Title:  A summer in Alaska: A popular account of the travels of an Alaska exploring expedition along the great Yukon River, from its source to its mouth, in the British North-west territory, and in the territory of Alaska    
 Creator:  Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892 
 Publication:  J.W. Henry, St. Louis,1894. 
 Call #:  F68J S412A 
 Extent:  418 p. incl. illus., plates., front., map. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) -- Description and travel | Alaska -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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22Title:  Lieutenant Armstong's expedition to the Missouri River, 1790    
 Creator:  Storm, Colton. 
 Publication:  n.p,1943] 
 Notes:  "Reprint from Mid-America, volume 25, new series, volume 14, number 3." 
 Call #:  E302.6 A7S 
 Extent:  1 p. l., 180-188 p. illus. (map) 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Armstrong, John, -- 1755-1816 | United States -- Exploring expeditions | Missouri River
 
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23Title:  Narrative of the second Arctic expedition made by Charles F. Hall: his voyage to Repulse bay, sledge journeys to the straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's land, and residence among the Eskimos, during the years 1864-'69    
 Creator:  Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871 
 Nourse, J. E. (Joseph Everett), 1819-1889
 United States Naval Observatory
 United States Navy Dept.
 Publication:  Govt. Print. Off, Washington,1879. 
 Notes:  LA3939-228 Stamp: "J.A. Garfield, Mar. 30, 1880." Location: 228.1-2/1-A. Edited from Hall's manuscripts, which were purchased by the government. This expedition, like his expedition of 1860-1862 was supported by private subscriptions, and both were undertaken to search for the records of the Franklin expedition and "to promote and benefit the cause of geography, navigation, natural history and science." "Principal English Arctic publications between the years 1818 and 1860": p. xlv-L. 
 Call #:  LA3939-228 
 Extent:  5 p. Á., L., xlviii, 644 p. front., illus., plates, ports., maps (part fold.) fold. facsim. 27 cm. 
 Subjects:  Franklin, John, -- Sir, -- 1786-1847 | Eskimos | Arctic regions | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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24Title:  Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains    
 Creator:  United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. 
 Stansbury, Howard, 1806-1863
 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
 Girard, Charles Frâedâeric, 1822-1895
 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
 Torrey, John, 1796-1873
 Hall, James, 1811-1898
 Publication:  Lippincott, Grambo & Co, Philadelphia,1852. 
 Notes:  LA2547-228 Two James A. Garfield bookplates. "J.A. Garfield." President Garfield's note on title page: "This officer (Howard Stansbury) mustered me into the military service of the U.S. in Aug. 1861. J.A.G." Location: 228.7-8/6-B. Published also, London and Philadelphia, 1852, under title: An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah ... "Appendix C. Zoology. Quadrupeds and birds, by Prof. Spencer F. Baird. Reptiles, by Prof. Baird and Chas. Girard. Insects, by Prof. Haldemann": p. [305]-379. "Appendix D. Botany. Catalogue of plants collected by the expedition. By Professor John Torrey": p. [381]-397. "Appendix E. Letter from Professor James Hall ... containing observations on the geology and palµontology of the country traversed by the expedition": p. [399]-414. First edition. Howes, U.S.-iana, S 884. 
 Call #:  LA2547-228 
 Extent:  487 p. front., plates (part fold.) fold. map. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Natural history -- Utah | Great Salt Lake (Utah) | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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25Title:  Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux: being the narrative of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862    
 Creator:  Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871 
 Publication:  Harper, New York,1866. 
 Notes:  Added t.p., illustrated. LA3929-228 James A. Garfield bookplate "Washington D.C., June 13, 1870. Dear Sir, The accompanying volume is the record of my 1st voyage. The narrative of my 2nd voyage to the Arctic regions commencing in 1864 & ending last fall, 1864, is not yet published. Respectfully, J.F. Hall. To Hon. J.A. Garfield." "Hon. J.A. Garfield with the regards of J.F. Hall, Washington D.C., June 13, 1870." Location: 228.1-2/1-A. 
 Call #:  LA3929-228 
 Extent:  595 p. : ill., fold. map. ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Franklin, John, -- Sir, -- 1786-1847 | Eskimos | Arctic regions | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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26Title:  The daring adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, among buffaloes, grizzlies and Indians: being a spirited diary of the most difficult and wonderful explorations ever made, opening ... the great pathway to the Pacific    
 Creator:  Frâemont, John Charles, 1813-1890 
 Publication:  Hurst & Co, New York,[c1885] 
 Notes:  "A narrative of adventures and explorations in the country lying betwen the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains...[By J. C. Fremont]" : p. [71]-493. 
 Call #:  F42HA C32D 
 Extent:  493 p. front. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Carson, Kit, -- 1809-1868 | United States -- Exploring expeditions | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Pacific States -- Description and travel | Rocky Mountains
 
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27Title:  Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains    
 Creator:  United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. 
 Stansbury, Howard, 1806-1863
 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
 Girard, Charles Frâedâeric, 1822-1895
 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
 Torrey, John, 1796-1873
 Hall, James, 1811-1898
 Publication:  R. Armstrong, Public Printer, Washington,1853. 
 Notes:  L.C. copy imperfect: 2 plates and folded map wanting. Published also London and Philadelphia, 1852, under title: An expedition to the valley of the Great salt lake of Utah ... "Appendix C. Zoology. Quadrupeds and birds, by Prof. Spencer F. Baird. Reptiles, by Prof. Baird and Chas. Girard. Insects, by Prof. Haldeman": p. [305]-379. "Appendix D. Botany. Catalogue of plants collected by the expedition. By Prof. John Torrey": p. [381]-397. "Appendix E. Letter from Professor James Hall ... containing observations on the geology and palµontology of the country traversed by the expedition": p. [399]-414. Report submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Topographical Engineers. 
 Call #:  F61J S791E 
 Extent:  495 p. front., plates (part fold.) fold. map. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Natural history -- Utah | Great Salt Lake (Utah) | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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28Title:  Die Mormonen-Ansiedlungen: die Felsenge-Birge und der grosse Salzee; nebst einer Beschreibung der Auswanderer-Strasse und der interessanten Abenteuer der Auswanderungen nach jenen Gegenden    
 Creator:  Stansbury, Howard, 1806-1863 
 United States. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.
 Publication:  Franckh, Stuttgart,1854. 
 Notes:  Translation of the narrative portion of Stansbury's report, originally pub. 1852 as U.S. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake. 
 Call #:  F61J S791E1 
 Extent:  viii, 293 p., fold. map. 17 cm. 
 Subjects:  Natural history -- Utah | Mormons | Great Salt Lake | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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29Title:  Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842: and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44    
 Creator:  Frâemont, John Charles, 1813-1890 
 Publication:  D. Appleton & Company, G.S. Appleton; [etc., etc.], New York, Phildelphia,1846. 
 Call #:  F42DC F872 
 Extent:  iv, [5]-186 p. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Pacific States -- Description and travel | Rocky Mountains | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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30Title:  Oregon and California: The exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains, Oregon and California    
 Creator:  Frâemont, John Charles, 1813-1890 
 Publication:  G. H. Derby & co, Buffalo,1850. 
 Call #:  F42J F871O 
 Extent:  456 p. 2 pl., 2 port. (incl. front.) 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- Exploring expeditions | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Pacific States -- Description and travel | Rocky Mountains | California -- Gold discoveries
 
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31Title:  Oregon and California: the exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains, Oregon and California    
 Creator:  Frâemont, John Charles, 1813-1890 
 Publication:  G.H. Derby & co, Buffalo,1849. 
 Call #:  F42J F871N 
 Extent:  456 p. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- Exploring expeditions | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Pacific States -- Description and travel | Rocky Mountains | California -- Gold discoveries
 
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32Title:  Oregon and California: The exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California    
 Creator:  Frâemont, John Charles, 1813-1890 
 Publication:  G.H. Derby & co., 1851, Buffalo, 
 Call #:  F42J F871O 1851 
 Extent:  456 p. 2 pl., 2 port. (incl. front.) 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- Exploring expeditions | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Pacific States -- Description and travel | Rocky Mountains | California -- Gold discoveries
 
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33Title:  A report on an exploration of the country lying between the Missouri river and the Rocky mountains: on the line of the Kansas and Great Platte rivers    
 Creator:  Frâemont, John Charles, 1813-1890 
 Torrey, John, 1796-1873
 United States Army. Corps of Engineers.
 Publication:  Printed by order of the United States' Senate, Washington,1843. 
 Notes:  For other editions see his Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains in the year 1842. 
 Call #:  F42J F872 
 Extent:  207 p. front., plates, fold. map. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Botany -- West (U.S.) | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Rocky Mountains | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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34Title:  Reports of the Secretary of War: with reconnaissances of routes from San Antonio to El Paso    
 Creator:  United States Army. Corps of Engineers. 
 Publication:  Printed at the Union Office, Washington,1850. 
 Notes:  Plates 2, 21 and 39 wanting. 
 Call #:  F27J U58 
 Extent:  250 p. 75 pl. (part col., part fold., incl. ports., plans) 2 fold. maps. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- New Mexico | Southwest, New -- Description and travel | Texas -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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35Title:  Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852    
 Creator:  Marcy, Randolph Barnes, 1812-1887 
 McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885
 United States War Dept.
 Publication:  A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer, Washington,1854. 
 Notes:  Report submitted by the Secretary of War. 
 Call #:  F26X R312U1 
 Extent:  xv, 286 p., [65] p. of plates (1 fold.) : ill., maps ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Natural history -- Louisiana | Natural history -- Texas | Red River (Tex.-La.) | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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36Title:  Reports of explorations and surveys: to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6]    
 Creator:  United States War Dept. 
 Henry, Joseph, 1799-1878
 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
 United States Army. Corps of Engineers.
 Publication:  A.O.P. Nicholson, printer [etc.], Washington,1855-60. 
 Notes:  Vols. I-XI were issued in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents as 33d Cong., 2d sess. House ex. doc. 91, and also as Senate ex. doc. 78. Vol. XI was issued also (1861) as 36th Cong., 2d sess. Senate ex. doc. [no number] Supplement to vol. I (the material of which was published also in vol. XII, book I and book II) was issued in at least three forms: Supplement to vol. I, 1859, W.A. Harris, printer, as 35th Cong., 2d sess. Senate ex. doc. 46--Vol. XII, book I-II, 1860, T.H. Ford, printer, as 36th Cong., 1st sess. House ex. doc. 56, and Senate ex. doc. [no number] The reports of the Pacific railroad surveys were prepared under the direct supervision of the Engineer department. The volumes dealing with the soil, climate, geology, botany and zoology of the regions surveyed were edited and revised by Professors Henry and Baird, of the Smithsonian institution. cf. Ingersoll, Hist. of the War department, 1879, p. 292-293. For further information concerning the publication of the work and a list of serial numbers assigned to the volumes in the Congressional series of documents, see Checklist of United States public documents. 1911, p. 1274-1275. 
 Call #:  F42J U58R 
 Extent:  12 v. in 13. plates (part col., part fold.) maps (part fold.) 30 x 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Pacific railroads -- Explorations and surveys | Natural history -- The West | Indians of North America -- The West | The West -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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37Title:  Life with the Esquimaux: the narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall of the whaling barque "George Henry" from the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862; with the results of a long intercourse with the Innuits and full description of their mode of life, the discovery of actual relics of the expedition of Martin Frobisher of three centuries ago, and deductions in favor of yet discovering some of the survivors of Sir John Franklin's expedition    
 Creator:  Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871 
 Publication:  S. Low, son and Marston, London,1864. 
 Notes:  Same as his Arctic researches. 
 Call #:  G670 1860 H174L 
 Extent:  2 v. front. (v. 1) illus., pl., maps (partly fold.) plans. 
 Subjects:  Franklin, John, -- Sir, -- 1786-1847 | Eskimos | Arctic regions | United States -- Exploring expeditions
 
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38Title:  Exploration of the valley of the Amazon    
 Creator:  Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857 
 Gibbon, Lardner.
 United States Navy Dept.
 Publication:  R. Armstrong [etc.] Public Printer, Washington,1853-54. 
 Notes:  Four plates wanting in v. 2. Vol. 1, by Herndon; v. 2, by Gibbon. Imprint of v. 2: Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, public printer. Also issued (Washington, 1854) as House ex. Doc., 33d Cong., 1st sess. 
 Call #:  F2546 H558E 
 Extent:  2 v. illus., 52 pl. (incl. fronts.) 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Amazon River Valley | Peru -- Description and travel | Bolivia -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions | Brazil -- Description and travel
 
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39Title:  Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky mountains: performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, sec'y of war ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long    
 Creator:  James, Edwin, 1797-1861 
 Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864
 Say, Thomas, 1787-1834
 Seymour, Samuel
 Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
 Delleker, George
 Young, James H.
 Childs, Cephas Grier, 1793-1871
 Publication:  H.C. Carey and I. Lea, Philadelphia,1822-23. 
 Notes:  Includes index. Atlas dated 1822. "Vocabularies of Indian languages": v. 2, p. [lxix]-lxxxviii. 
 Call #:  F42J J27 
 Extent:  2 v. : maps, plates ; 25 cm. + 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) | Indians of North America -- Languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions | Ohio River -- Description and travel
 
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40Title:  James's Account of S. H. Long's expedition, 1819-1820    
 Creator:  James, Edwin, 1797-1861 
 Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864
 Say, Thomas, 1787-1834
 Publication:  A. H. Clark, Cleveland, Ohio,1905. 
 Notes:  Reprint, including facsimile of t.-p., of London edition of 1823 of his "Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820. By order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S. H. Long ... Comp. from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party." 
 Call #:  F42J T548 v.14-17 
 Extent:  4 v. 9 plates, fold. facsim., fold. diagrs. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | United States -- Exploring expeditions | Rocky Mountains | Cleveland imprints 1905-
 
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