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A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1839
Published by Missouri Historical Society, Saint Louis, 1912
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. St. Louis, 1912. 162pp. Illus. Portrait folding map. Original cloth. This copy is number 123 of the five hundred copies numbers. It is numbers on the page that follows the title . This book was signed by someone as the Missouri Historical Society. There is some wear to all four corners and some to the top and bottom of the spines. Not Signed.
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Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico, connected with Col. Doniphan's expedition, in 1846 and 1847.with a Scientific Appendix and Three Maps. Miscellaneous Document number 26, 30th Congress, 1st Session.
Published by Washington: Tippin & Streeper, 1848., 1848
First Edition
8vo., (9 x 5 4/8 inches). 2 fine folding maps of Texas, and folding profile of the route from Independence to Chihuahua via Santa Fe and El Paso (some browning). Disbound; preserved in a green cloth clamshell box. First edition, Senate issue. In 1846 Wislizenus, a German Dr, left his practice in St. Louis for one of his periodical expeditions. His intention was "to gather information on the geography and natural history of northern Mexico and California. Shortly after he started down the Santa Fe Trail in May, however, war broke out with Mexico. He accompanied a caravan of wagons belonging to trader Albert Speyer, who was transporting two wagonloads of arms and ammunition ordered by the governor of Chihuahua. The train was consequently pursued a considerable distance down the trail by a detachment of U.S. dragoons. At Santa Fe, Wislizenus obtained a safe-conduct pass from the New Mexican governor and then traveled south along the Chihuahua Trail, passing through El Paso del Norte and arriving in the city of Chihuahua on 24 August. Because of his gathering of plant specimens and other scientific data in and near the city, Wislizenus was suspected of being a spy. He was later refused permission to leave the state and was held along with several American merchants at the village of Cusihuiriáchic, approximately ninety miles to the west, until 3 March 1847, after U.S. troops under Colonel Alexander Doniphan had taken Chihuahua. "Abandoning his planned visit to California, Wislizenus took a position as assistant surgeon with Doniphan's force, traveling with the army on its return to the United States via Saltillo, Monterrey, Matamoros, and New Orleans, arriving in St. Louis in early July. Despite the various difficulties of the trip, he brought back much important information on the physical character of the Southwest and Mexico. His journal, along with his meteorological tables, maps, and a botanical appendix prepared from his specimens by Engelmann, was published by the U.S. Senate in 1848 as 'Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico, Connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition, in 1846 and 1847' (Mark L. Gardner for ANB). Howes W597. Plains & Rockies IV:159:1. Raines, p. 221. Rittenhouse 656. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 701 & III, pp. 10 & 143.
