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Vanguard of Expansion
Army Engineers in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1819-1879 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The cover illustration is from a watercolor entitled "Carson Lake from the east, Sierra Nevada in the distance," by J.J. Young. The painting is based on a sketch by H.V.A. von Beckh, who accompanied Captain James H. Simpson's 1859 expedition into the Great Basin. National Archives.
Chapter I. ACROSS THE FATHER OF WATERS
Chapter II. FRÉMONT AND THE SCREAMING EAGLE
Chapter III. THE MEXICAN WAR RECONNAISSANCE, 1845-1848
Chapter IV. THE BOUNDARY SURVEYS
Chapter V. THE SOUTHWESTERN RECONNAISSANCE, 1848-1860
Chapter VI. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD SURVEYS
Chapter VII. THE NORTHERN FRONTIER, 1855-1860
Chapter VIII. THE GREAT SURVEYS AND THE END OF AN ERA
Index (omitted from the online edition)
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