Report upon the Colorado River of the West
Subtitle: explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in charge
Contributors: Ives, J. C., author; Newberry, J. S. (John Strong), 1822-1892, writer of supplementary textual content; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888, writer of supplementary textual content; Torrey, John, 1796-1873, writer of supplementary textual content; Thurber, George, 1821-1890, writer of supplementary textual content; Engelmann, George, 1809-1884, writer of supplementary textual content; Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887, writer of supplementary textual content; Young, J. J., illustrator; Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905, illustrator; Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885, illustrator
Series: United States. 36th Congress, 1st Session, 1859-1860. Senate. Executive document -- unnumbered; Indigenous Peoples: North America; Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) -- 36th Congress, 1st session (Unnumbered)
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Description and travel; Discoveries in geography; American; Discovery and exploration; Geology; Botany; Birds
Notes: "By order of the Secretary of War."

Also issued as House of Representatives executive document, no. 90, for the same session.

Part 1: 131 pages; part 2: 14 pages ; part 3: 154, [6] pages ; part 4: 30 pages ; part 5: 6, 31, [1] pages.

Some illustrations drawn by Mr. J.J. Young from sketches by Messrs. Mollhausen and Egloffstein.

Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.
Table of contents: title: Letter to the officer in charge of the Office of Explorations and Surveys / J.C. Ives; title: pt. 1. General report; title: pt. 2. Hydrographic report; title: pt. 3. Geological report / by Dr. J.S. Newberry, Geologist to the Expedition; title: pt. 4. Botany / by Professors Gray, Torrey, Thurber, and Dr. Engelmann; title: pt. 5. Zoology [list of birds collected on the Colorado Expedition] / by Professor S.F. Baird, Smithsonian Institution; title: Appendix A. Remarks upon the astronomical observations ; Remarks upon the barometric observations; title: Appendix B. List of camps, with distances, altitudes, latitudes, and longitudes, etc.; title: Appendix C. Barometric and meteorological observations; title: Appendix D. Remarks upon the construction of the maps.