Exploring southwestern trails, 1846-1854
By: by Philip St. George Cooke, William Henry Chase Whiting [and] François Xavier Aubry. Edited by Ralph P. Bieber in collaboration with Averam B. Bender.
Contributors: Whiting, William Henry Chase, 1824-1865.; Aubry, François Xavier, 1824-1854.; Bieber, Ralph P. 1894- ed.; Bender, Averam Burton, 1891- joint ed.
Series: The Southwest historical series,; 7
Publisher: The Arthur H. Clark company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Glendale, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: United States. Army. Mormon Battalion.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Regimental histories -- United States.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.; Texas -- Description and travel.
Description: Military and civilian explorations of the Southwest. One of the purposes of Aubry's travels was locating potential railroad routes to connect the east with the west.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Cooke's journal of the march of the Mormon Battalion, 1846-1847.; title: Journal of William Henry Chase Whiting, 1849.; title: Diaries of François Xavier Aubry, 1853-1854.