Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains and to Oregon and North California
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781432614768
Subjects: History / United States / General; United States - General; History; History - U.S.; History: American
First sentence: SIR: Agreeably to your orders to explore and report upon the country between the frontiers of Missouri and the South Pass in the Rocky mountains, and on the line of the Kansas and Great Platte rivers, I sat out from Washington city on the 2d day of May, 1842, and arrived at St. Louis, by way of New York, the 22d of May, where the necessary preparations were completed, and the expedition commenced.