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Be Sure Not to Miss: Lot 5296, Stansbury Great Salt Lake Expedition Volumes w/ Maps

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Be Sure Not to Miss: Lot 5296, Stansbury Great Salt Lake Expedition Volumes w/ Maps
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Please be sure not to miss Lot 5296 on Day 5! It has an updated description and numerous additional photos:

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Incredible combination of the Stansbury Expedition of 1851 text in excellent condition WITH the accompanying MAP book.

These two books are the final report of that effort, and it is a masterful compendium of not only the topography, but it also includes ethnographic studies of the Native Americans they encountered along the route, along with sections describing the botany, zoology, geology and paleontology, and chemical analyses of specimens collected along the way. His writing is highly descriptive, giving a sense of traveling with the team and experiencing each new landscape as they encountered it. He writes with empathy about the native peoples and the various groups of emigrants that were also making their way west.

The discussion of the interactions of various Indian tribes as well as emigrants to the California gold rush are very noteworthy, as are the discussions of the trial and tribulations along the way, especially having to deal with cholera, which was killing emigrants and creating fear in all.