(WEST) John C Frémont Report of the Exploring Expedition to

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(WEST.) John C. Frémont. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California. 5 maps, 22 plates. 693 pages. 4vo, publisher's cloth, crudely rejointed, otherwise minor wear; moderate foxing, minor dampstaining to outer leaves, folding pocket map (32 1/2x 54 inches) toned with only minor wear and short separations at intersections of folds. Senate Document, 28th Congress, 2nd Session, Doc. 174. Washington, 1845

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First edition, Senate issue, with additional scientific data not included in the House issue. It features an unusually well-preserved copy of the large folding Preuss pocket map. Includes the report on Frémont's 1842 expedition along the Oregon Trail, as well as his second expedition concluded in 1844: "Guided by Kit Carson, Frémont proceeded down the Snake River and on down the Columbia to Fort Vancouver. Moving into northwestern Nevada, Frémont suddenly took his expedition on a rash midwinter crossing of the Sierra Nevada"--Hill 640. Howes F370 ("aa"); Sabin 25845; Wagner-Camp 115:1; Wheat, Transmississippi West 497 and pages II:194-200 ("magnificent map . . . Great Salt Lake is for the first time adequately mapped"); Zamorano Eighty 39.