Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso; also, the Report of Capt. R.B. Marcy’s Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe,

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Author: Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891), William Farrar Smith, F T Bryan, F. T. Bryan, Nathaniel H Michler and Samuel Gibbs French Year: 1850 Publisher: Printed at the Union Office Place: Washington, D C Description: 250+[752 lithograph plates] with 2 lithograph folding maps and 27 plates tinted in color. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x ;6") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped decorative cover. Full title: Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso; also, the Report of Capt. R.B. Marcy's Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe; and the Report of J.H. Simpson of an Expedition into the Navajo Country; and the Report of Lieutenant W.H.C. Whiting's Reconnaissances of the Western Frontier of Texas 3 1st Congress, 1st Session, Senate Executive Document No. 64. (Sabin 36377, Howes J170, Wagner-Camp, 184) First edition. This volume combines several of the reconnaissances including the landmark one by Simpson of the Navajo Country.These were the first published reports that opened West Texas and New Mexico to travel and settlement. Simpson's report is considered one of the most accurate and complete descriptions of the Zuni and Pueblo Indians and he was the first to describe Chaco Canyon, Inscription Rock, Canyon de Chelly and Pueblo Bonito. (Early map to show the location of Fort Worth) The color plates are the earliest chromolithographs printed in as government report. Johnston was trained a

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