Report upon the reconnaissance of northwestern Wyoming
Subtitle: made in the summer of 1873
By: by William A. Jones
Contributors: Jones, William A. (William Albert), 1841-1914
Series: Ex. doc. / 43d Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives -- no. 285; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Ex. doc. (United States. Congress. House) -- 43rd Congress, 1st session, no. 285.
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1874
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Description and travel; Discoveries in geography; American; Discovery and exploration; Geology
Description: Captain William A. Jones headed a military expedition to Yellowstone Park in 1873. The purpose of the expedition was to locate a militrary road from the Union Pacific Railroad in southern Wyoming to the Park. Included on his staff were naturalists and geologists which resulted in reports on insects (J.D. Putman), plants (C.C. Parry) and geology (T. Comstock). It was during this expedition that Togowoheap Pass was discovered which opened up the southern portion of Yellowstone for futuer exploration. The expedition is sometimes referred to as the Jones-Comstock Expedition of 1873.

Descriptive Journal in the general report documents travel itenerary as follows: Fort Bridger -- Pacific Springs -- Hostile Indians -- South Pass -- Sweetwater River -- Camp Stambaugh -- Camp Brown -- Shoshone Agency -- Hot Sulphur Springs -- Wind River -- Owl Creek Mountains -- Valley of the Big Horn -- Discovery of the Sierra Shoshonee -- Ascent of thw Washakee Needles -- Shoshonee Village -- Sashakee -- Indian scouts -- Stinkingwater River -- Crossing of the Sierra Shoshonee -- Stinking Water Pass -- Yellowstone Lake -- Great Falls on Grand Canon -- Explanation of origin -- Hot Springs on Orange Creek -- Great Hot Springs on Gardiner's River -- Description and explanation -- Fossil gas-bubbles -- Amethyst basins -- Yellowstone Lake -- "Our twenty-eighth hop" -- Ascent of Mount Sheridan -- A deserted camp -- Trouble with Indian scouts -- Upper Yellowstone River -- Discovery of "Two-Ocean Water" -- The Three Tetons -- Discovery of Togwotee Pass -- Teton Basin -- Head of Wind River -- Return to Camp Brown.
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
Table of contents: title: General report / W.A. Jones; title: Astronomical report / S.E. Blunt; title: Geological report / T.B. Comstock; title: Report on mineral and thermal waters / C.L. Heizmann; title: Botanical report / C.C. Parry; title: Entomological report / J.D. Putnam.