Fiasco
Subtitle: George Clinton Gardner's correspondence from the U.S.-Mexico boundary survey, 1849-1854
By: edited by David J. Weber and Jane Lenz Elder
Contributors: Weber, David J.; Elder, Jane Lenz
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Degolyer Library series -- no. 6; DeGolyer Library series -- no. 6.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, DeGolyer Library
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780870745621
Other titles: George Clinton Gardner's correspondence from the U.S.-Mexico boundary survey, 1849-1854
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To New Orleans and Panama, February 13-June 22, 1849; title: Initial points, Camp Riley and the Gila, July 23-October 31, 1849; title: "Glorious state of uncertainty," November 15, 1849-July 2, 1850; title: Finishing the California line, July 23, 1850-June 1, 1851; title: Home for a day and off to El Paso del Norte, September 7-October 20, 1851; title: Frontera, Texas, a "derned mean" country, January 8, 1852-May 16, 1852; title: "God knows what will become of the survey": down the Rio Grande to Ringgold Barracks, May 30-December 11, 1852; title: Back to the Rio Grande, then home again, January 2-November 18, 1853; title: Resignation and new adventures, January 25-April 13, 1854; title: Appendix: A chronological list of the correspondence.