Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains

327pp; blue cloth with gilt and silver stamping. Former college library volume with customary labels and stamps. Contents textually unmarked, clean, tight; b/w illustrations. 23.5cm x 15.5cm. Reprint of Fremont's accounts of expeditions made in 1842 and 1843-44. The first expedition extended to the Wind River Range in Wyoming; the second reached Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River and returned through Northern California and the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain ranges. Accounts contain daily descriptions of events, scientific observations, scenery, progress. Fremont collected geographical information; made observations and recommendations as to sites for future military posts, roads, and areas suitable for settlement. He collected zoological, botanical and geological specimens and made analyses of soil and water. All the while, Fremont had to deal with problems of equipment, food, and Indian dangers. Detailed accounts are engrossing and fascinating, reflecting courage, fortitude, ingenuity of the early explorers.…