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xv, [1], 320 pp. + plates. Illustrated with 65 lithographed plates (many duo-tone) including views, geological sections (1 hand-colored and folding), paleontology, zoology and botany plates; 2 large folding maps. 9x5½, original law calf, morocco spine labels. First Edition, Senate Issue.

Important explorations of previously unknown areas of present-day Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arkansas by one of the major figures in the reconnaissance and settlement of the frontier. "Contains authentic information regarding the peculiar customs of the Indians of the southern plains. Their mode of warfare, their invariable violation of the chastity of female prisoners, and the condition of their dwellings and villages, are particularly described" (Sabin). Wagner-Camp adds that "Marcy's report abounds in topographical and geographical detail." The two important maps, here bound in at the end of the book, but sometimes issued in a separate folder, are "Map of the Country Between the Frontiers of Arkansas and New Mexico embracing the section explored in 1849, 50, 51 & 52..." (69x147.5 cm.) and "Map of the Country Upon Upper Red-River" (41x86.4 cm.) Graff 2675; Howes M276; Jenkins 135; Rader 2346; Sabin 44512; Wagner-Camp 226:1; Wheat Transmississippi 792.