Report of explorations across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah for a direct wagon-route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859
By: by J.H. Simpson
Contributors: Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862; Engelmann, Henry; Meek, F. B. (Fielding Bradford), 1817-1876; Gill, Theodore, 1837-1914; Hurt, Garland; Kern, Edward Meyer, 1823-1863; Collins, C. R.; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1876
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Travel; Geology; Natural history; Description and travel; Surveys; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Explorations across the Great Basin of Utah
Notes: "... [M]ade by authority of the Secretary of War and under instructions from Bvt. Brig. Gen. A.S. Johnston ... ."

Appendices include: Geological report, by Henry Engelmann; Paleontological report, by F. B. Meek; Ichthyology, by Theodore Gill; Indians of Utah, by Garland Hurt; Report on the languages of the Indians, by C.R. Collins; and Journal of Mr. Edward Kern of his exploration of Mary's, or Humboldt River, Carson Lake, [etc.] in 1845.

"Appendix R: Journeyings of Father Escalante from Santa Fé to Utah Lake ... in 1776 [translated and summarized] by Philip Harry."

Errata slip tipped in following p. 6.

Includes index.

At head of title: Engineer Department, U.S. Army.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

Includes bibliographical references.