Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains
By: by Howard Stansbury, Captain. Corps Topographical Engineers, U.S. Army ...
Contributors: Stansbury, Howard.; Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887.; Girard, Charles Frédéric, 1822-1895.; Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880.; Torrey, John, 1796-1873.; Hall, James, 1811-1898.
Series: Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) -- 32d Congress, special session, March 1851, no. 3.; Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 551, no. 5552.; Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) -- 32nd Congress, special session, March 1851, no. 3.
Publisher: Lippincott, Grambo
Published: 1852
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Natural history -- Utah.; Great Salt Lake (Utah); West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.; United States -- Discovery and exploration.
Notes: Published also, London and Philadelphia, 1852, under title: An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah ...

"Appendix C. Zoology. Quadrupeds and birds, by Prof. Spencer F. Baird. Reptiles, by Prof. Baird and Chas. Girard. Insects, by Prof. Haldemann": p. [305]-379.

"Appendix D. Botany. Catalogue of plants collected by the expedition. By Professor John Torrey": p. [381]-397.

"Appendix E. Letter from Professor James Hall ... containing observations on the geology and palÆontology of the country traversed by the expedition": p. [399]-414.

First edition. Howes, U.S.-iana, S 884.

Bound in purple cloth; stamped in gold and blind; buff endpapers.

Master microform held by: ResP.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel ; 35 mm. (Western Americana: Frontier History of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1550-1900 ; reel 551, no. 5552)