STANSBURY, Howard.

Special Session, March, 1851. Senate. Executive. No. 3. Exploration

Item #72659

STANSBURY, Howard. Special Session, March, 1851. Senate. Executive. No. 3. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States. Phila.: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. 1st ed., 2nd state. 2 Vols. 487pp; 2 large folding maps. Illus., maps. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Light wear to spine ends, spine sunned, map volume rebacked, else a fully untrimmed, very good copy. HOWES S-884. Wagner-Camp 219. Field 1490. Graff 3947. With 59 tinted plates. The separate volume has 2 large folding maps: one of the Great Salt Lake and adjacent country and the other of a reconnaissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri River, and the Great Salt Lake in the Utah Territory. This state is identical to the first except for the title page. "Capt. Stansbury commanded the detachment of the Army's Topographical Engineers which was directed in 1849 to explore and report on the Great Salt Lake Basin. Of particular interest were the newly established Mormon settlements, and the routes and passes through the Rockies for emigrants and possibly a railroad." Robert H Becker, The Plains and the Rockies.

Price: $1,500.00