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BOOK

Title:  
Transmitting the information required by a resolution of the H.R. of the 1st instance respecting the Movements of the Expedition which lately ascended the Missouri River,&c
Creators:
Atkinson, Henry, 1782-1842 | United States War Dept.
Publication:
Gales & Seaton, Washington, 1826.
Notes:  
At head of title : Expedition up the Missouri, Letter from the Secretary of War
Extent:
16p.



BOOK

Title:  
Report of an examination of the upper Columbia river and the territory in its vicinity in September and October, 1881, to determine its navigability, and adaptability to steamboat transportation
Creators:
United States Army. Corps of Engineers. | Symons, T. W. (Thomas William), 1849-1920
Publication:
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1882.
Notes:  
Title on spine: Upper Columbia river. Appended is "Map of the upper Columbia river ... 25 sheets and an index sheet. From surveys and examinations made in 1881, by Lieut. Thomas W. Symons ... and Alfred Downing ... Drawn by Alfred Downing."
Call #:  
917.11 SY6
Extent:
133 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill., maps. ; 29 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Down the Colorado
Creators:
Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922 | Smith, Dwight La Vern, 1918-
Publication:
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, [c1965]
Notes:  
Bibliographical footnotes.
Call #:  
917.913 ST25D
Extent:
xxv, 237 p. : illus., maps ; 23 1/2 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Fremont's fourth expedition: A documentary account of the disaster of 1848-1849; with diaries, letters, and reports by participants in the tragedy
Creators:
Hafen, Le Roy Reuben, 1893- | Hafen, Ann W. (Ann Woodbury), 1893-1970
Publication:
A.H. Clark Co, Glendale, Calif, 1960.
Notes:  
Bibliographical footnotes.
Call #:  
917.8 F88H
Extent:
319 p. : front., illus., maps ; 24 1/2 cm.



ANALYTIC

Title:  
... Epitome of Warren's Memoir.--1800-1857: Memoir giving a brief account of each of the English expeditions since A. D. 1800
Parent:
U.S. Geographical surveys west of the 100th meridian. Report ... Washington, 1875-89. vol.I
Creator:
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, 1830-1882
Publication:
Washington, [1889]
Notes:  
The "Memoir" was pub. in vol.XI of the quarto series of Pacific railroad explorations and surveys, issued by the War department.
Call #:  
557.3 UN15RE V.1
Extent:
p.513-597 ; 30 cm.



PAMPHLET

Title:  
Report of the Committee appointed the twenty-second ultimo, to inquire if any, and what compensation ought to be made to Captain Pike and his companions, for their services in exploring the Mississippi River, and in their expedition to the sources of the
Creator:
United States Congress(10th, 1st session)
Publication:
A. & B. Way, Washington, 1808.
Notes:  
Not in Sabin.
Call #:  
973 PAM. NO.386
Extent:
[4] p. ; octavo.



BOOK

Title:  
Synopsis of the report on zoophytes of the U. S. exploring expedition around the world, under C. Wilkes, U. S. N. commander, in the years 1838-1842
Creators:
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 | Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
Publication:
The author, New Haven, [1859]
Notes:  
"The author's report on Zoophytes was published by the government in ... 1846 ... The edition on sale having been exhausted, the author here issues a small volume containing the brief descriptions of the species in the work, to accompany complete copies of the Atlas."--Pref. Includes index.
Call #:  
508.3 UN3P.UV.7
Extent:
vi, 172 p. ; 23 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Edward Kern and American expansion
Creator:
Hine, Robert V., 1921-
Publication:
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1962.
Notes:  
"Bibliographical essay": p. [163]-174.
Call #:  
B K45h
Extent:
xix, 180 p., [35] p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
The valley of the Upper Yellowstone: an exploration of the headwaters of the Yellowstone River in the year 1869, as recorded by Charles W. Cook, David E. Folsom, and William Peterson
Creators:
Cook, Charles W., 1839-1927 | Folsom, David E. | Peterson, William, 1834-1939 | Haines, Aubrey L.
Publication:
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, [1965]
Notes:  
Bibliography: p. 59-61.
Call #:  
917.87 C77V
Extent:
xxxii, 79 p. : illus., (fold.) maps, ports. ; 23 1/2 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Message ... transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of 7th December last, in relation to the delay in the outfit, &c., for the exploring expedition
Creators:
United States President (1837-1841 : Van Buren) | Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853
Publication:
Washington], 1838.
Call #:  
328.73 UN3B V.327
Extent:
630 p. ; 23 1/2 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Explorations in the Dacota country, in the year 1855
Creators:
United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. | Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, 1830-1882
Publication:
A. O. P. Nicholson, Senate printer, Washington, 1856.
Notes:  
This copy in unbound signatures, in paper folder. Micropublished as publication no.149 in "American Natural History, based on the Bbiliography of American Natural History, 1769-1865 by Max Meisel." New Haven, Conn.: Research Publications, Inc., 1974.
Call #:  
FLM 1348 PUB.149
Extent:
79 p. : illus. ;



BOOK

Title:  
Twenty years before the mast
Creator:
Erskine, Charles.
Publication:
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington [D.C.], [1985].
Notes:  
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : C. Erskine, 1890.
Call #:  
910.4 ER8T.R
Extent:
x, 311 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Report of an expedition to the Copper, Tanana, and Koyukuk rivers in the Territory of Alaska in the year 1885: "for the purpose of obtaining all information which will be valuable and importantespecially to the military branch of government." made under the direction of Nelson A. Miles
Creators:
Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930 | Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925
Publication:
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887
Notes:  
Contents: Correspondence and Introduction - p.9-18, Part I. Historical - p.19-30, Part II. Narrative - p.31-116, Part III. Maps and Tables of Distances - p.117-26, Part IV. Natives - p.127-48, Part V. Observations - p.149-62, Part VI. Meteorological - p.163-67
Extent:
172p. 28 leaves of plates, ill, charts, 5 maps (fold.)



BOOK

Title:  
The Missouri expedition, 1818-1820: the journal of Surgeon John Gale, with related documents
Creators:
Gale, John, 1795?-1830 | Nichols, Roger L.
Publication:
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, [1969]
Notes:  
Also attributed to Thomas W. Kavanaugh. Edited from the ms. in the Yale University Collection of Western Americana. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 127-134.
Call #:  
917.8 G13M.N
Extent:
xxvii, 145 p. (p. 141-145 advertisements) : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Notes of a military reconnoissance[!] from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers [1846-7]
Creator:
Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887
Publication:
Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Washington, 1848.
Notes:  
Micropublished as publication no.42 in "American Natural History, based on the Bibliography of American Natural History, 1769-1865 by Max Meisel." New Haven, Conn.: Research Publications, Inc., 1974.
Call #:  
FLM 1348 Pub.42
Extent:
416 p. : illus.



ANALYTIC

Title:  
Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition
Parent:
U.S. Bureau of ethnology. Annual rept. for 1887-88, v.9
Creator:
Murdoch, John, 1852-
Publication:
U.S. Bureau of ethnology, Washington, 1892.
Call #:  
572.061 SM6
Extent:
p.3-441 : illus. 2 maps.



BOOK

Title:  
Report of the survey of the north and northwest lakes
Creators:
Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872 | United States War Dept. Engineer Dept.
Publication:
Daily Free Press Steam Printing House, Detroit, 1861.
Call #:  
526 M46R
Extent:
190 p. : 3 maps, 3 charts ; octavo.



BOOK

Title:  
Reports of explorations in the territory of Alaska (Cooks inlet, Sushitna, Copper, and Tanana rivers) 1898
Creators:
United States Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division. | Glenn, Edwin F. (Edwin Forbes), 1857-1926 | Abercrombie, W. R. (William Ralph), b. 1857
Publication:
Govt. print. off, Washington, 1899.
Notes:  
War dept. doc. no. 102.
Call #:  
355 UN2P NO.25
Extent:
1 p. l., 464 p. map. 23 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Report upon United States Geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian: in charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler ... under the direction of the chief of engineers, U. S. Army
Creators:
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) | Wright, Horatio Gouverneur, 1820-1899 | Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883 | Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905
Publication:
Govt. print. off, Washington, 1875-1889.
Notes:  
A. A. Humphreys, chief of engineers until June 1879. Succeeded by H. G. Wright. In addition to the atlases named, there are "Special maps (not accompanying reports) ... issued from time to time to show the results of some preliminary reconnaissance or of some survey of an area of peculiar interest," and also maps, based on the maps of the Topographical atlas and known as the "Land classification series." Topographical atlas.--Geological atlas. This is for the 2 atlases.
Call #:  
.73 1869
Extent:
7 v. in 8. : fronts. (v. 3, 6-7) illus., plates (part col.) maps ; 30 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Magnificent voyagers: the U.S. exploring expedition, 1838-1842
Creators:
Viola, Herman J. | Margolis, Carolyn
Publication:
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C, 1985.
Notes:  
Maps on lining papers. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 271-285.
Call #:  
508.3 UN3XV
Extent:
303 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. ; 29 cm.



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