Subject • | United States -- Exploring expeditions | [X] | • | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel |
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| • | Rocky Mountains |
(10)
| • | Pacific States -- Description and travel |
(7)
| • | Alaska -- Description and travel |
(6)
| • | Indians of North America |
(6)
| • | New Mexico -- Description and travel |
(6)
| • | Arctic regions |
(5)
| • | Botany -- West (U.S.) |
(4)
| • | California -- Gold discoveries |
(4)
| • | Geology -- West (U.S.) |
(4)
| • | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel |
(4)
| • | Eskimos |
(3)
| • | Franklin, John, -- Sir, -- 1786-1847 |
(3)
| • | Imprints, Early American To 1820 |
(3)
| • | Lewis and Clark Expedition -- (1804-1806) |
(3)
| • | Mississippi River -- Description and travel |
(3)
| • | Missouri River |
(3)
| • | Natural history -- Utah |
(3)
| • | Southwest, New -- Description and travel |
(3)
| • | Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) -- Description and travel |
(3)
| • | Arizona -- Description and travel |
(2)
| • | Clark, William, -- 1770-1838 |
(2)
| • | Colorado River |
(2)
| • | Columbia River Valley |
(2)
| • | Dakota Indians |
(2)
| • | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) |
(2)
| • | Great Salt Lake (Utah) |
(2)
| • | Hayden, F. V. -- (Ferdinand Vandeveer), -- 1829-1887 |
(2)
| • | Indians of North America -- Languages |
(2)
| • | Manitoba -- Description and travel |
(2)
| • | Minnesota -- Description and travel -- To 1858 |
(2)
| • | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel |
(2)
| • | Ojibwa Indians |
(2)
| • | Ouachita River (Ark. and La.) |
(2)
| • | Paleontology -- West (U.S.) |
(2)
| • | Palestine -- Description and travel |
(2)
| • | Voyages and travels |
(2)
| • | Yukon River and Valley -- Description and travel |
(2)
| • | Zoology -- West (U.S.) |
(2)
| • | Agriculture -- West (U.S.) |
(1)
| • | Amazon River Valley |
(1)
| • | Amazon River Valley -- Discovery and exploration -- American |
(1)
| • | Antarctic regions |
(1)
| • | Armstrong, John, -- 1755-1816 |
(1)
| • | Astronomy -- Observations |
(1)
| • | Barrow, Cape |
(1)
| • | Beltrami, Giacomo Costantino, -- 1779-1855 |
(1)
| • | Benton, Thomas Hart, -- 1782-1858 |
(1)
| • | Birds -- United States |
(1)
| • | Bolivia -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Botany -- California |
(1)
| • | Botany -- Oregon |
(1)
| • | Brazil -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | California -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | California -- Surveys |
(1)
| • | Carson, Kit, -- 1809-1868 |
(1)
| • | Cleveland imprints 1905- |
(1)
| • | Columbia River |
(1)
| • | Comstock Lode (Nev.) |
(1)
| • | Cook, James, -- 1728-1779 |
(1)
| • | Cree language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc |
(1)
| • | Explorers -- United States -- Biography |
(1)
| • | Frâemont, Jessie Benton, -- 1824-1902 |
(1)
| • | Geographers -- United States -- Biography |
(1)
| • | Geologists -- United States -- Biography |
(1)
| • | Geology -- California |
(1)
| • | Geology -- Colorado |
(1)
| • | Geology -- Montana |
(1)
| • | Geology -- New York (State) |
(1)
| • | Geology -- Oregon |
(1)
| • | Geology -- United States |
(1)
| • | Geology -- United States -- Surveys |
(1)
| • | Grand Canyon |
(1)
| • | Great Lakes |
(1)
| • | Great Salt Lake |
(1)
| • | Grinnell Land |
(1)
| • | Hawaii -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Hot Springs (Ark.) |
(1)
| • | Hot springs -- Arkansas |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America -- Languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America -- New Mexico |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America -- The West |
(1)
| • | Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) |
(1)
| • | Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries |
(1)
| • | Lady Franklin Bay |
(1)
| • | Lewis and Clark Expedition |
(1)
| • | Lewis and Clark Expedition -- (1804-1809) |
(1)
| • | Livingstone, David, -- 1813-1873 |
(1)
| • | Long, Stephen Harriman, -- 1784-1864 |
(1)
| • | Louisiana -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Ludlow, William, -- 1843-1901 |
(1)
| • | Meteorology -- Rocky Mountains |
(1)
| • | Meteorology -- West (U.S.) |
(1)
| • | Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States |
(1)
| • | Military bases -- United States |
(1)
| • | Mines and mineral resources -- United States |
(1)
| • | Minnesota River (S.D. and Minn.) |
(1)
| • | Minnesota River Valley |
(1)
| • | Minnesota River Valley (S.D. and Minn.) |
(1)
| • | Mississippi River -- Sources |
(1)
| • | Montana -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Mormons |
(1)
| • | Natural history -- Louisiana |
(1)
| • | Natural history -- Mississippi River Valley |
(1)
| • | Natural history -- Northwest, Old |
(1)
| • | Natural history -- Southwest, New |
(1)
| • | Natural history -- Texas |
(1)
| • | Natural history -- The West |
(1)
| • | Nevada -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Oceania |
(1)
| • | Ohio River -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Ojibwa language |
(1)
| • | Oregon -- History -- To 1859 |
(1)
| • | Oregon Trail |
(1)
| • | Overland journeys to the Pacific |
(1)
| • | Pacific Coast -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Pacific railroads -- Explorations and surveys |
(1)
| • | Paleontology -- California |
(1)
| • | Paleontology -- Montana |
(1)
| • | Paleontology -- Oregon |
(1)
| • | Paleontology -- United States |
(1)
| • | Perry, Matthew Calbraith, -- 1794-1858 |
(1)
| • | Peru -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Polaris (Ship) |
(1)
| • | Red River (Tex.-La.) |
(1)
| • | Red River of Louisiana |
(1)
| • | Russia -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Siberia -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | South America -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Texas -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | The West -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | United States -- Boundaries -- Mexico |
(1)
| • | United States. -- Army. -- Pacific Division |
(1)
| • | West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources |
(1)
| • | Wilkes, Charles, -- 1798-1877 |
(1)
| • | Yellowstone National Park |
(1)
| • | Yellowstone National Park -- Description and travel |
(1)
| • | Yellowstone National Park -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources |
(1)
| • | Zoology -- Montana |
(1)
| • | Zuäni River |
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| Book | Requires cookie* | 21 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 22 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 23 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 24 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 25 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 27 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 35 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 36 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 37 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 38 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 39 | Title: | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 40 | Title: | 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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