Up the Winds and Over the Tetons

Daniel D. Merrill

ISBN 10: 0826350984 / ISBN 13: 9780826350985

Published by University of New Mexico Press, US, 2021

About this Item

In the late 1850s many of the most striking places in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana had not yet been surveyed by any government expedition. This book brings to life the expedition that first explored these regions. As the last major government survey of the American West before the Civil War, the Raynolds Expedition began in 1859. This highly readable daily journal of Captain William F. Raynolds, previously unpublished, covers the most challenging period of that expedition, from May 7 to July 4, 1860. It describes what the Raynolds party did and saw while traveling from its winter quarters near today's Glenrock, Wyoming, up to the head of the Wind River, through Jackson Hole, and on to the Three Forks of the Missouri in southwestern Montana. The party included legendary mountain man Jim Bridger, geologist Ferdinand Hayden, and artists Anton SchÖnborn and James Hutton, among the first to depict the Teton Range.Historians, travelers, and outdoor enthusiasts will welcome this important addition to the literature of western exploration.

Seller Inventory # LU-9780826350985

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Up the Winds and Over the Tetons
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, US
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826350984
• ISBN 13: 9780826350985
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.88W x 1.27H x 23.5D centimeters 15.88 centimeters width by 1.27 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 218 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Historians, travelers, and outdoor enthusiasts will welcome this important addition to the literature of western exploration.

About the Author

Marlene Deahl Merrill is an affiliate scholar at Oberlin College and the editor of two books on the 1871 Yellowstone Expedition.

Daniel D. Merrill (1932-2016) was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Oberlin College.