Through the country of the Comanche Indians in the fall of the year 1845 : the journal of a U.S. Army expedition led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers, artist extraordinary whose paintings of Indians and their Wild West illustrate this book /
The second of two volumes exhibiting the talents of an important but hitherto little known recorder of life in the early American West--Lieutenant James W. Abert of the U.S. Topographical Engineers, soldier and artist.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Through the country of the Comanche Indians in the fall of the year 1845 : |b the journal of a U.S. Army expedition led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers, artist extraordinary whose paintings of Indians and their Wild West illustrate this book / |c edited by John Galvin. |
| 264 | 1 | |a [San Francisco] : |b J. Howell, |c 1970. | |
| 300 | |a xi, 77 pages : |b color illustrations, 3 maps (2 folded) ; |c 36 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Originally published in 1846 under title: Message from the President of the United States ... communicating a report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Abert on the upper Arkansas. | ||
| 500 | |a "5000 copies designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, San Francisco"--Title-leaf verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-73) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Biographies in brief: James William Abert ; Guy William Peck -- Start of the journey -- Bent's Fort -- Cheyennes and Delawares -- The route -- Up the Purgatory -- Apaches -- Prairie dogs -- A mustang -- Timpa Valley -- Santa Fe Trail -- Raton Fork -- Imposing scenery -- Through the Raton Pass -- Beginnings of the Canadian -- Bears -- Gold country -- Rattlesnakes -- Grand Canyon of the Canadian -- Open prairie -- Hailstorm -- Antelope -- Mustangs -- Autumnal flowers -- Prairie fire -- Thunderstorm -- Scenes of "grand sublimity" -- Comanche country -- Flowers of the plains -- Unseen Indians -- Buffalo chase -- Encounter with a wolf -- Comanches: buffalo eaters -- Petrified trees -- Plain strewed [strewn] with rose-and-blue striped agates -- Night alarm -- "Merry meeting" with friendly Kioways [Kiowas] and Crows -- Indian ways -- Mexican traders from Taos with a Pueblo guide -- Farewells -- Search for the Washita -- A tarantula -- State Plain [Llano Estacado] -- On the Washita -- Alarm but no Indian attack -- Kioways friendly -- Fitzpatrick's remarks on the various Indian tribes and languages -- Wild turkey for dinner -- Grapes -- Antelope Buttes -- A panther -- Fishes seen and a few small ones caught with a mosquito bar -- Lovely country -- "Glorious vegetation" and "glittering forest" -- Edwards's settlement -- Creek Indians -- News of the 4th of July -- Search for river's mouth -- Explorers or desperadoes? -- End of the Survey -- Fort Gibson -- Overland journey to St. Louis. | |
| 520 | |a The second of two volumes exhibiting the talents of an important but hitherto little known recorder of life in the early American West--Lieutenant James W. Abert of the U.S. Topographical Engineers, soldier and artist. | ||
| 590 | |a Spec. Coll. copy: Gift of Rob Gibson and Janet Gibson Wentworth, 2010. | ||
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