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- catalog contributor b2014241.
- catalog coverage "Southwest, New History.".
- catalog created "[1955]".
- catalog date "1955".
- catalog date "[1955]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1955]".
- catalog description ""This is the informal story of the men who explored, surveyed, and mapped our new boundary with Mexico after 1848, and then the huge area within it, before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, and of those who blazed the trails for wagon roads and railroads through this land to the Pacific Coast. Also it tells of the accompanying artists who sketched, painted, and photographed the Indians, the landmarks, and the scenery; and the scientists who collected, classified, and meticulously illustrated the flora and fauna in those vast regions. It was nearly all unknown country and their activities in these lines were probably greater than similar ones in any other decade of our history, but their achievements were historically blanketed by the great gold rushes to California, Colorado, and Nevada, and by the political excitements leading to the Civil War, so that these unusual pioneers have been undeservedly forgotten" -- Pref.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliography.".
- catalog extent "xii, 288 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Great reconnaissance; soldiers, artists, and scientists on the frontier, 1848-1861.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Great reconnaissance; soldiers, artists, and scientists on the frontier, 1848-1861.".
- catalog issued "1955".
- catalog issued "[1955]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston, Little, Brown".
- catalog relation "Great reconnaissance; soldiers, artists, and scientists on the frontier, 1848-1861.".
- catalog spatial "Southwest, New History.".
- catalog subject "979".
- catalog subject "F786 .W34".
- catalog tableOfContents ""This is the informal story of the men who explored, surveyed, and mapped our new boundary with Mexico after 1848, and then the huge area within it, before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, and of those who blazed the trails for wagon roads and railroads through this land to the Pacific Coast. Also it tells of the accompanying artists who sketched, painted, and photographed the Indians, the landmarks, and the scenery; and the scientists who collected, classified, and meticulously illustrated the flora and fauna in those vast regions. It was nearly all unknown country and their activities in these lines were probably greater than similar ones in any other decade of our history, but their achievements were historically blanketed by the great gold rushes to California, Colorado, and Nevada, and by the political excitements leading to the Civil War, so that these unusual pioneers have been undeservedly forgotten" -- Pref.".
- catalog title "The great reconnaissance; soldiers, artists, and scientists on the frontier, 1848-1861, by Edward S. Wallace.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".