BOOK
Title:
Scenes and incidents in the western prairies: during eight expeditions, and including a residence of nearly nine years in northern Mexico
Creator:
Gregg, Josiah, 1806-1850
Publication:
J. W. Moore, Philadelphia, 1857.
Notes:
Title on spine: Scenes & thrilling incidents on the prairies and Mexico. Another issue of the author's Commerce of the prairies, 1844.
Extent:
2 v. in 1 v. : ill., maps. ; 20 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Report of surveys across the continent, in 1867-'68, on the thirty-fifth and thirty-second parallels, for a route extending the Kansas Pacific Railway to the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco and San Diego
Creators:
Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909 | Union Pacific Railroad Company
Publication:
W.B. Selheimer, Printer, Philadelphia, 1869.
Extent:
250 p. : (fold.) maps, fold. plate ; octavo.
BOOK
Title:
Missions and pueblos of the old Southwest: their myths, legends, fiestas, and ceremonies, with some accounts of the Indian tribes and their dances; and of the penitentes
Creator:
Forrest, Earle Robert, 1883-
Publication:
The Arthur H. Clark company, Cleveland, 1929.
Notes:
The region described comprises New Mexico and Arizona. "One hundred copies of this work were specially printed on Strathmore deckle-edge paper, accompanied by an atlas of plates and a colored map." Bibliography: p. [349]-352.
Extent:
386 p. : fronts., plates, fold. map ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Drawing the borderline: Artist-explorers of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Survey : [an exhibition organized by the Albuquerque Museum. Gray Sweeney, Guest Curator ... John Grassham, Curator of History ...]
Creators:
Sweeney, J. Gray, 1943- | Grassham, John W. | Albuquerque Museum | United States-Mexico Boundary Survey
Publication:
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerue, N.M.], [c1996]
Notes:
"... The first exhibition ever compiled in New Mexico on the visual images completed by the US-Mexico Boundary Survey Commissioner, John Russell Bartlett, and artists Henry Cheever Pratt and Seth Eastman. ..." -- Foreword.
Extent:
xi, 156 p. : (col.) illus., (col.) facsims., (col.) ports. ; 25 cm.
PAMPHLET
Title:
Memoir, historical and political, on the Northwest coast of North America, and the adjacent territories: illustrated by a map and a geographical view of those countries
Creators:
Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854 | United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Oregon Territory. | United States Dept. of State. | United States Congress Senate.(26th, 1st session : 1839-1840).
Publication:
Blair and Rives, printers, Washington, 1840.
Notes:
February 10, 1840. Submitted by Mr. Linn, from the Select committee on the Oregon territory; and ordered to be printed, and the 2,500 additional copies to be sent to the Senate. Written by direction of the Honorable John Forsyth, secretary of state of the United States, and published by order of the Senate, on motion of the Honorable L. F. Linn, chairman of the Select committee on the Oregon territory. Chronologically arranged, 1493-1839. Found in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents, serial no.357; and issued also without document serial number ("bureau editon") Notes on the Louisiana purchase and the Southwwest are included, with brief accounts of overland journeys, notably those of Alvar Nunez Cabeza deVaca (whose wanderings for eight years, 1528-1536, brought him to Cullacan, near the Gulf of California) and the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806.
Extent:
xi, 228 p. : fold. map ; octavo.
PAMPHLET
Title:
Memoir, historical and political, on the northwest coast of North America, and the adjacent territories: illustrated by a map and a geographical view of those countries
Creators:
Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854 | United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Oregon Territory. | United States Dept. of State.
Publication:
Blair and Rives, printers, Washington, 1840.
Notes:
February 10, 1840. Submitted by Mr. Linn, from the Select committee on the Oregon Territory; and ordered to be printed, and that 2,500 additional copies be sent to the Senate. Includes index. "Written by direction of the Honorable John Forsyth, secretary of state of the United States." Chronologically arranged, 1493-1839. Found in the Congressional series of U. S. public documents, serial no. 357; and issued also without document serial number ("bureau edition") Notes on the Louisiana purchase and the Southwest are included, with brief accounts of overland journeys, notably those of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (whose wanderings for eight years, 1528-1536, brought him to Culiacan, near the Gulf of California) and the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806.
Extent:
xi, [1], 228 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 23 cm.
