Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers, By W. H. Emory, brevet-major, corps topographical engineers. Made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the west."

Washington, Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printers, 1848

The Zamorano 80

Text

416 p.

maps, plates

23 cm.

The Bancroft Library

Wagner-Camp, p. 207
With large 56 panel folding map: Military reconnoissance of the Arkansas Rio Del Norte and Rio Gila. The map covers Texas, New Mexico, the area that is now Arizona, and California. It includes barometric profiles of the routes and also indicates areas inhabited by Indian tribes
Another edition, of same date, with folded map (ordered printed December 16, 1847) is found in the Congressional series of public documents (Serial no. 505)
Text includes descriptions of encounters with Indians
Illustrated with lithographs

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