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- catalog abstract "Soldier and explorer William H. Emory traveled the length and breadth of the United States and participated in some of the most significant events of the nineteenth century. This first complete biography of Emory offers new insight on an often overlooked military figure and provides an important view of an expanding America. Born in Maryland in 1811, Emory was a West Point graduate who resigned his commission to become a civil engineer and join the newly formed Corps of Topographical Engineers. After working along the Canadian boundary, he was selected to accompany Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West in their trek to California in 1846, and his map from that expedition helped guide Forty-Niners bound for the goldfields. Emory worked for nine years on the new border between the United States and Mexico after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase and was responsible for the survey and marking of the boundary. When the Civil War broke out, Emory refused a commission in the Confederate Army, instead commanding a regiment defending Washington, D.C.".
- catalog contributor b10901466.
- catalog contributor b10901467.
- catalog contributor b10901468.
- catalog coverage "Southwest, New Discovery and exploration.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Emory worked for nine years on the new border between the United States and Mexico after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase and was responsible for the survey and marking of the boundary. When the Civil War broke out, Emory refused a commission in the Confederate Army, instead commanding a regiment defending Washington, D.C.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-344) and index.".
- catalog description "Soldier and explorer William H. Emory traveled the length and breadth of the United States and participated in some of the most significant events of the nineteenth century. This first complete biography of Emory offers new insight on an often overlooked military figure and provides an important view of an expanding America. Born in Maryland in 1811, Emory was a West Point graduate who resigned his commission to become a civil engineer and join the newly formed Corps of Topographical Engineers. After working along the Canadian boundary, he was selected to accompany Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West in their trek to California in 1846, and his map from that expedition helped guide Forty-Niners bound for the goldfields.".
- catalog extent "353 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "William H. Emory.".
- catalog identifier "0816519110 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "William H. Emory.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press,".
- catalog relation "William H. Emory.".
- catalog spatial "Southwest, New Discovery and exploration.".
- catalog spatial "Southwest, New".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.5/092 b 21".
- catalog subject "CT275.E496 N67 1998".
- catalog subject "Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887.".
- catalog subject "Explorers Southwest, New Biography.".
- catalog subject "Scientists Southwest, New Biography.".
- catalog subject "Soldiers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers Officials and employees Biography.".
- catalog title "William H. Emory : soldier-scientist / L. David Norris, James C. Milligan, and Odie B. Faulk.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".