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Pp. 207-220. Folding engraved map. (8vo) 22x13.5 cm. (8¾x5¼"), modern black cloth lettered in gilt on front cover.

Significant report extracted from the Message from the President of the United States (James K. Polk), being a portion of the Report of the Commanding General of the Army (Winfield Scott). Wagner-Camp notes that "Pages 214-17 contain abstracts of journals kept by Lieutenants Turner and Franklin during the expedition. The party left Fort Leavenworth on May 18, 1845, traveled up the North Platte River to Fort Laramie, crossed over South Pass to the Green River, and returned by way of Bent's Fort to Fort Leavenworth on August 24. Pages 217-20 contain a report from Capt. E.V. Sumner on a trip made from Fort Atkinson to Traverse des Sioux and Devil's Lake for the purpose of preventing the Red River halfbreeds' annual hunt from encroaching on United States Territory. The "Map of the Route Pursued by the Late Expedition under the command of Col. W.S. Kearny, U.S. 1st Dragoons, by W.B. Franklin, Lieut. Corps of Topl. Engs. Attached to the Expedition," 20x33 cm., is listed as Wheat, Transmississippi, 495. Warren Heckrotte notes that "The portion of the Arkansas River from Bent's Fort to Pawnee Rock was used by Abert and Peck in their map of 1845 which included the area covered by this map."

Provenance: PBA, 7/23/98

References: Wheat, Transmississippi, 495. Wagner-Camp 117.