1819

Bradbury, John, fl. 1819

Book

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

GLC04141

1821

Nuttal, Thomas, 1786-1859

Book

Title: 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 naturalist, Nuttall also details the vegetation, climate, and agricultural possibilities of the territory he passes through. Contains a fold-out map inside the front cover of Nuttall's route along the Arkansas River.

GLC04142

1823

James, Edwin, 1797-1861

Book

Title: 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

1834

Pike, Albert, 1809-1891

Book signed

Title: 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 Trail.

GLC04144

1844

Gregg, Josiah, 1806-1850

Book signed

Title: 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

1846

Sage, Rufus B., fl. 1846

Book

Title: 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 description of the countries passed through, including their geography, geology, resources, present condition, and the different nations inhabiting them"

GLC04147

1849

Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893

Book signed

Title: 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

1850

Garrard, Lewis Hector, 1829-1887

Book

Title: 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 detailed observations and opinions of Native Americans he encountered while travelling.

GLC04151

1852

Horn, Hosea B., fl. 1852

Book

Title: 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 route having been tracked by a road-measurer, and the distances from place to place, and from the Missouri River, accurately ascertained. With a complete and accurate map." Pertains to the California gold rush. Includes appendix and business advertisements. Publisher's advertisements on eighteen pages at end. Pages 77 and 78 are reversed. A…

GLC04152.01

1856

Kendall, George W., fl. 1844-1856

Book

Title: 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, losses from hostile Indians, and final capture of the Texans, and their march, as prisoners, to the city of Mexico. With illustrations and a map."

GLC04153

1855

Linforth, James, 1927-1899

Book

Title: 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 commencement up to the close of 1855, with statistics." Edited by Linforth. Published as a monument to Mormon emigration and as a means of attracting further emigrants.

GLC04155

1858

Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905

Header Record

Title: 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 and Indians while accompanying Lieutenant Whipple's Expedition. With nineteen plates (seven chromolithographs) and a folding map.

GLC04156

1864

Campbell, J.L., fl. 1864

Book

Title: 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." With frontispiece map and original color pictorial cover. Pages 53-62 are advertisements.

GLC04157

1814

Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809

Book

Title: History of the Expedition... [1st Ed. in original boards; Paul Allen, compiler]

Full title: "History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. By order of the Government of the United States. Prepared for the press by Paul Allen, Esquire." Original boards for each volume. Published by Bradford and Inskeep. (Lewis died before he finished editing the Journals, which were completed by Nicholas Biddle in 1812, but the printer, Conrad, failed and other printers refused publication. Bradford &…

GLC04051.01

1900

Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809

Header Record

Title: History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean : performed during the years 1804, 1805, 1806 by order of the government of the United States

Prepared for the press by Paul Allen, Esq., revised and abridged by Archibald M'Vickar. Reprint by A. W. Fowle, apparently of the 1845 Harper Brothers edition.

GLC04051.02

4 May 1493

Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503

Broadside

Title: [Demarcation bull, granting Spain possession of lands discovered by Columbus]

Broadside entitled "Copia de la bula del decreto y concession q[ue] hizo el papa / Alexandro sexto al Rey y la Reyna nuestros senores de las Indias conforme al capitu." A unique copy of the second version possibly printed at Valladolio, by Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba. Title in Spanish and text in Latin. This document is often known as the Doctrine of Discovery and established a demarcation line one hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands and assigned Spain the exclusive right to acquire territorial possessions and to trade in all lands west of that line. All others were…

GLC04093

1870s-1880s

Photograph

Title: Western Scenes. Collection of 111 Stereoviews by various photographers

111 views, including San Francisco, Pacific Railroad, Yosemite, California, Colorado, Utah. Includes interesting stereo view of Chinese-owned store in San Francisco. Mostly 1870s-1880s. Items .72 &.73

GLC04183

1857-1861

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Header Record

Title: John Moore Collection [Decimalized .01-.42]

Contains a map, a general order, 39 letters, and a memoir, pertaining to the Utah Expedition of 1857-1861.

GLC04194

1781

Carver, Jonathan, fl. 1781

Book

Title: Travels through the interior parts of North America... [Third edition]

GLC04169

1825-1833

Manuscript document

Title: Texas. Draft of brief on behalf of Union Land Company & Trinity Land Company

Anonymous draft of a brief for the Union Land Company and the Trinity Land Company, on behalf of Lorenzo de Zavala, David G. Burnet and Joseph Vehlein.

GLC04170

1833

Holley, Mary A., fl. 1833

Book

Title: Texas. Observations, historical, geographical and descriptive...[First Edition]

Full title: "Texas. Observation, Historical, geographical and descriptive in a series of letter, written during a visit to Austin's colony, with a view to a permanent settlement in that country...." 12mo. First book in English entirely on Texas. Signed on front papers "Rd Higgins, Jr." and "F. M. Green, 1929." There are also pencil notes inside the back cover. Holley was a cousin of Stephen Austin. Letters nos. I-V (pp. 5-51) relate to her trip from New Orleans to Bolivar while letters VI-XII (pp. 51-131) describe history, geography, climate, etc. References: Howes H593, Jenkins, "…

GLC04171

1857

Wells, John G., 1821-1880

Map

Title: Well's new map of Missouri and Eastern Kansas

This is a fold out map contained within a book measuring 14.5 x 9 cm. When unfolded, the full title displayed on the map is "Well's New Railroad and Township Map of Missouri and Eastern Kansas from the latest Government Surveys." Contains a large image of Missouri, indicating border states. Depicts different counties in color.

GLC04174

29 April 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document signed

Title: [President Abraham Lincoln appoints William W. Ross as an agent for the Pottowatomie Indians in Kansas]

Countersigned by Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary of the Interior. Features embossed seal of the Department of the Interior.

GLC04206

1552

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566

Book

Title: Aqui se Contiene una Disputa, o Controversia [Second Edition]

The fifth tract on the conquest of the New World and rights of the Indians. In Spanish.

GLC04220

1718

De L'Isle, Guillaume, fl. 1718

Map

Title: Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi [map of North America]

Based on the notes of M. le Maire by Guillaume del'Isle. The first detailed map of the Gulf coast region and the Mississippi, and the first printed map to show Texas. With an insert of Mobile Bay. This map was also the first to show the land routes of earlier explorers: Desoto in 1539 and 1540 and his successor Moscoso in 1542, Cavelier in 1687, Tonty in 1702 and the recent routes of Denis in 1713 and 1716. The map's political implications outraged the English by laying claim to Carolina. Mapping of America 43.

GLC04222