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General Orders, No. 1

Orders announcing assumption of command at Charleston, South Carolina. States that "Charleston is declared to be under Martial Law. All functions heretofore exercised by the Mayor, commonality, civil and criminal courts, police authorities, and local...

GLC04130

Diario de viage de la Comision de limites que puso el gobierno de la Republica bajo la direccion del exmo. sr. general de division d. Manuel de Mier y Teran [in Spanish]

Written by order of the individuals on the Comision de Limites, Luis Berlandier and Rafael Chovel. Published by the Tipografia de J. R. Navarro. Inscription reads "John R. Bartlett from Jose Salazar, El Paso del Norte, Oct. 1832." Title page also...

GLC04131

Doniphan's expedition; containing an account of the conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney's overland expedition to California; Doniphan's campaign against the Navajos; his unparalleled march against Chihuahua and Durango; and the operations of General Price at Santa Fé: with a sketch of the life of Col. Doniphan

Published by U. P. James, 4th edition.

GLC04133

A report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs, comprising a narrative of a tour performed in the summer of 1820 , under a commission from the President of the United States, for the purpose of ascertaining, for the use of the government, the actual state of the Indian tribes in our country: Illustrated by a map of the United States; ornamented by a correct portrait of a Pawnee Indian

Printed by S. Converse, published by Howe & Spalding. Signed by M. H. White on the title page. Reverend Morse presents a detailed study on Native American Tribes to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War. Information in this work is based on Morse's...

GLC04135

The United States in Congress assembled

Report from Congress concerning the debt, its interest and its apportionment among the states. The resolution urges the states to surrender their western territories and to help pay the foreign and domestic debt. Includes a list of debts to various...

GLC04136

Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence...to the Pacific Ocean [1789-93]

With three folding maps. Full title: "Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the years 1789 and 1793. With a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and...

GLC04137

Views of Louisiana; together with... a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811

Full title: "Views of Louisiana : together with a Journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811" Printed and published by Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, Franklin head office.

GLC04140

Travels in the interior of America, in the Years 1809,1810 & 1811... [Louisiana]

GLC04141

A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the Aborigines.

Published by Thos. H. Palmer. Includes Nuttall's observations on his journey from Philadelphia to Arkansas along the Arkansas River. Describes his encounters with Cherokee, Chickasaw, Osage, and Quapaw Tribes, among others. A botanist and...

GLC04142

Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long / from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party

Published by H.C. Carey and I. Lea. Contains a separate folio atlas volume with two maps, eight plates (1 colored), and 1 plate of geological cross-sections. James was the botanist and geologist for the expedition.

GLC04143

Prose sketches and poems, written in the Western Country

Signed and inscribed on the last page by Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith, former editor of The Boston Medical Intelligencer. Published by Light & Horton. Pike, a newspaper editor and lawyer, created this book after his journey over the Santa Fe...

GLC04144

Commerce of the Prairies. Or the journal of a Santa Fe trader, during eight expeditions across the Great Western Praries, and a residence of nearly nine years in Northern Mexico.

Signed by James William Abert, an army officer and explorer. Published by Henry G. Langley. Includes two folding maps. Discusses New Mexico geography and history, Santa Fe trade, and travel to and within Northern Mexico.

GLC04146

Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas,...

With large folding map and 11 plates. Also discusses Great Plains. Full title: "Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the grand prairies : or, Notes by the way, during an excursion of three years, with a...

GLC04147

General epistle from the Council of the Twelve Apostles, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints abroad, dispersed throughout the earth.

Signed in type by President Young and Clerk Willard Richards. A letter narrating Mormon history from their expulsion from Illinois in 1846 until their settlement in Utah and their founding of Salt Lake City. Invites like-minded people in the...

GLC04149

The California and Oregon Trail: being sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life

The two plates, frontispiece and pictorial title are engraved by Childs after F.O.C. Darley and printed by C.A. Alvord. Inscribed with "Dr. O'Callaghan, with respects of F. Parkman Jr."

GLC04150

Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or prairie travel and scalp dances, with a look at los rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain camp-fire.

Published by H. W. Derby & Co. Also published in New York, New York by A. S. Barnes & Co. Relates his 1846 journey along the Sante Fe and Taos (New Mexico) Trails while accompanying a merchant caravan led by Ceran St. Vrain. Includes Garrard's...

GLC04151

Horn's overland guide, from the U.S. Indian sub-agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California...

Title continues "Containing a table of distances, and showing all the rivers, creeks, lakes, springs, mountains, hills, camping-places, and other prominent objects, with remarks on the country, roads, timbers, grasses, curiosities, etc.; the entire...

GLC04152.01

Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe expedition....

Fuller title: "Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, comprising a description of a tour through Texas, and across the great southwestern prairies, the Camanche and Caygua hunting-grounds, with an account of the sufferings from want of food...

GLC04153

Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley : illustrated with steel engravings and wood cuts from sketches made by Frederick Piercy.

Title continues: "together with a geographical and historical description of Utah, and a map of the overland routes to that territory from the Missouri River : also an authentic history of the Latter-Day Saints' emigration from Europe from the...

GLC04155

Diary of a journey from the Mississippi to the coasts of the Pacific with a United States government expedition

Introduction by Alexander von Humboldt. Published by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. First English edition. Inscribed to Master R. Dymoke as "2nd Prise for School work. Woodbourne House. Christmas 1861." Describes western territories...

GLC04156

Idaho. Six months in the new gold diggings. The emigrant's guide overland

Cover title reads "Idaho. Six months in the new gold regions. The emigrant's guide." Title page subtitle reads "Itinerary of the routes, features of the country, journal of residence, etc., etc." and "New York: Published by J.L. Campbell. 1864."...

GLC04157

[Battle of Gum Swamp]

Shows the Confederate and Union lines, the locations of a Massachusetts brigade attack and other skirmishes, and the arrangement of fields, woods, roads, and fences. Captain Winn, of Company G in the 58th Pennsylvania Infantry, commanded the skirmish...

GLC04158

An Act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses,... [taxation]

Also printed with "An Act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States." Apparently first (unrecorded) Virginia printing.

GLC04159

An Enquiry into the law merchant of the United States...

First American treatise on commercial law. Vol. 1 was the only one published. First edition. American Imprints 1978, Marvin p. 169. Spine title: Lex Mercatoria. Dedicated to Jefferson. Signed on titlepage " Jona. D. Weston."

GLC04160

[A proclamation by Samuel Ward King]

Contains a brief introduction by King as Governor, Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Includes a reprinted letter by President John Tyler stating that he cannot get involved (by raising a...

GLC04161