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Annual report upon explorations and surveys in the Department of the Platte: Being Appendix QQ of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1875
There are at nearly all the headquarters of the tour military divisions and the nine military departments, officers of engineers, whose chief duty it is to collect geographical and other information; and these officers do, by means of their own explorations and surveys, and by collecting the notes, sketches, and maps made by the officers and soldiers belonging to the western posts, in their scouts
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W.S. Stanton
Annual Report upon the geographical explorations and surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in California, Nevada, Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana: Being Appendix LL of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers f
I have the honor to submit the following report upon geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. The States and Territories of California, Nevada, Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana had been entered at the close of the season of 1874, during the several years' operations of the survey. Of the political divisions
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George Montague Wheeler
Annual report upon the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel from the Sierra Nevada to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains: Being Appendix KK of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for 1875
I have the honor herewith to present a brief annual report of the operations of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel, under my charge, for the year ending June 30, 1875, and to state in explanation of its delay that, since the date when it should properly have been rendered, I have been severely ill, and confined to my bed more than half of the time.
The entire year bas been spent i
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Clarence King
Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: Volume I, 1874 and 1875: No. 1, second series
No abstract available.
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E.D. Cope, Elliott Coues, W. H. Jackson, F.B. Meek
Catalogue of the photographs of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories
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William Henry Jackson, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
Descriptive catalogue of the photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1875, inclusive: Miscellaneous publications - No. 5
Miscellaneous Publications of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories is comprised of No. 1-12, some with multiple editions. A 1st and 2nd edition of No. 5 were published in 1874 and 1875 respectively. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden is the United States geologist in charge of this series. List of publications, with contents of each, and author and subject index may b
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, William Henry Jackson
Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
In the summer of 1867, with a small party of naturalists, students, and amateurs like myself, I visited the mountain region of Colorado Territory. While in Middle Park, I explored a little cañon, through which the Grand River runs, immediately below the well-known watering-place, "Middle Park Hot Springs." Later in the fall I passed through Cedar Cañon, the gorge by which the Grand leaves the park
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John Wesley Powell
Instructions for taking and recording meteorological observations and for preserving and repairing the instruments: prepared for the use of field and astronomical parties of the expeditions for geographical surveys and explorations west of the one hundred
No abstract available.
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George Montague Wheeler, Richard Leveridge Hoxie, William Louis Marshall
No. 1: List of elevations principally in that portion of the United States west of the Mississippi River
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Henry Gannett
Preliminary report upon a reconnaissance through southern and southeastern Nevada, made in 1869
By authority from headquarters Military Division of the Pacific, Lieut. George M. Wheeler, United States Engineers, will proceed with his civil assistants and three enlisted men to either Camps Halleck or Ruby, Nevada, and having been joined by Lieut. D.W. Lockwood, United States Engineers, now en route via Fort Churchill, will there organize a party, to consist of two-non-commissioned officers an
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George Montague Wheeler, D.W. Lockwood
Report upon United States geological surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, Volume III: Geology
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George Montague Wheeler