Notes of a military reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers.
By: By Lieut. Col. W.H. Emory. Made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the West."
Contributors: Emory, William H. 1811-1887.
Series: 30th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Executive [document]; no. 7; Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ;; 30th Congress, 1st session, no. 7.
Publisher: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printers
Published: 1848
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Southwest, New -- Description and travel.; United States -- Discovery and exploration.
Other titles: Notes of a military reconnaissance
Notes: "December 16, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed; and that 1,000 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the Senate."
Another setting of type of this edition catalogued under LCCN rc 01000181 (call number F786.U57), the Senate edition.
Published also, with Reports of J.W. Abert and P.St.G. Cooke, and Journal of A.R. Johnston, as House doc. 41, 30th Cong., 1st sess.
Found also in the Congressional series of public documents, serial no. 505.
LC copy incomplete: all text after p. 158 wanting. Has fourteen botanical plates and large folded map (in three parts) mounted on linen.