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- catalog abstract ""In August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Fremont's invitation to join his fifth expedition to find the best overland route to California. A Baltimore artist, inventor, and daguerreotypist, Carvalho was given the job of creating a photographic record of the lands and peoples along the way." "Fremont's party left the Missouri on September 14, 1853, traveled up the Kansas River, overland to the Arkansas, upriver past Bent's Fort to the Huerfano, and traversed the Sandhill Pass into the Rocky Mountains. Beset by heavy snows and intense cold, they were reduced to eating their horses and mules and the occasional beaver or porcupine while making their way in midwinter across the Grand, Green, and Sevier Rivers. Suffering from frostbite, scurvy, and dysentery, Carvalho left the expedition in Utah, spent four months among the Mormons in Salt Lake City, where he observed with keen interest their system of spiritual wives, and reached California in 1854." "Carvalho became the first Jewish writer to publish accounts of the Great American West and was also one of the first people to photograph the American West. Although only one of his plates is known to survive, others became the models for wood and steel engravings that broadcast the image of the West throughout the world."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13183091.
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) History 1848-1860.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Carvalho became the first Jewish writer to publish accounts of the Great American West and was also one of the first people to photograph the American West. Although only one of his plates is known to survive, others became the models for wood and steel engravings that broadcast the image of the West throughout the world."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Fremont's party left the Missouri on September 14, 1853, traveled up the Kansas River, overland to the Arkansas, upriver past Bent's Fort to the Huerfano, and traversed the Sandhill Pass into the Rocky Mountains. Beset by heavy snows and intense cold, they were reduced to eating their horses and mules and the occasional beaver or porcupine while making their way in midwinter across the Grand, Green, and Sevier Rivers. Suffering from frostbite, scurvy, and dysentery, Carvalho left the expedition in Utah, spent four months among the Mormons in Salt Lake City, where he observed with keen interest their system of spiritual wives, and reached California in 1854."".
- catalog description ""In August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Fremont's invitation to join his fifth expedition to find the best overland route to California. A Baltimore artist, inventor, and daguerreotypist, Carvalho was given the job of creating a photographic record of the lands and peoples along the way."".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 130 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0803264445 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) History 1848-1860.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "978/.02 22".
- catalog subject "Carvalho, Solomon Nunes, 1815-1897.".
- catalog subject "F593 .C283 2004".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.".
- catalog subject "Mormon Church.".
- catalog title "Incidents of travel and adventure in the Far West : with Colonel Fremont's last expedition across the Rocky Mountains, including three months' residence in Utah, and a perilous trip across the great American desert to the Pacific / Solomon Nunes Carvalho ; introduction by Ava F. Kahn.".
- catalog type "text".