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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium: (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)
Hirsch, Werner Z. [Editor]; Weber, Luc [Editor]; Blasi, Paolo [Contributor]; Duderstadt, James J. [Contributor]; Gardner, David P. [Contributor]; Ikenberry, Stanley O. [Contributor]; Kennel, Charles F. [Contributor]; Newby, Howard [Contributor]; Nuesch, Jacob [Contributor]; Preuss, Peter [Contributor]; Tien, Chang-Lin [Contributor]; Tsichritzis, Dennis [Contributor]; A. van Ginkel, Hans J. [Contributor]; T. Rhodes, Frank H. [Contributor]; Wagner, Alan [Contributor]; Williams, Harold M. [Contributor]; Ziegler, Heide [Contributor];
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-Library hardcover with dj in very nice condition with the usual markings and attachments. Sunned spine. Interior clean and unmarked. Tight binding.
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Condition: Como nuevo. : Venus Prime I: Máxima Tensión es la primera entrega de una emocionante serie de novelas de ciencia ficción, basada en las creaciones del renombrado autor Arthur C. Clarke, conocido por su obra maestra '2001: Una odisea espacial'. En esta entrega, Clarke colabora con Paul Preuss para ofrecer una historia…llena de suspense y aventura en un contexto futurista. Publicada por Plaza y Janés en 1989, esta edición en tapa dura sumerge al lector en un mundo de ciencia ficción con 263 páginas llenas de imaginación y tensión. EAN: 9788401322969 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencia Ficción Título: Venus Prime I Autor: Arthur Charles Clarke| Paul Preuss Editorial: Plaza Y Janes Idioma: es-ES Páginas: 263 Formato: tapa dura.
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Condition: Muy bueno. : Sumérgete en el sexto volumen de la serie Venus Prime, 'Los seres radiantes', una fascinante obra de ciencia ficción escrita por Arthur C. Clarke y Paul Preuss. Publicada por Plaza & Janés, esta edición en tapa blanda te transportará a un mundo de misterio y aventura. Descubre los secretos que aguardan en… Venus Prime y déjate cautivar por la narrativa de estos aclamados autores. EAN: 9788401325373 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencia Ficción|Fantasía Título: Los seres radiantes Autor: Arthur Charles Clarke| Paul Preuss Editorial: Plaza & Janés Idioma: es-ES Páginas: 262 Formato: tapa blanda.
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Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with ma…ps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.
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Condition: Muy bueno. : La Galaxia se ve conmocionada por una arriesgada misión de exploración enviada a Amalthea, la misteriosa luna de Júpiter. Liderada por el famoso profesor Forster, la expedición no sólo llega a la superficie del extraño satélite, sino más allá. Sparta, una mujer de espectacular belleza que oculta un enigmá…tico pasado y capacidades sobrehumanas producto de una sofisticada biotecnología, recibe el encargo de supervisar todos los detalles del viaje. Pero su tarea se convierte en un juego mortal cuando Sir Randolph Mays, acérrimo rival de Forster, realiza un accidental aterrizaje forzoso en Almatea. EAN: 9788401324871 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencia Ficción Título: La luna de diamante Autor: Arthur Charles Clarke| Paul Preuss Editorial: Plaza & Janés Idioma: es-ES Páginas: 272 Formato: tapa blanda.
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Paperback. Ref. F60722. 15x21. 264 pág. + 16 laminas en b/n. Ciencia ficción. 30-I Ciencia ficción Sin categorizar.
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Paperback. Ref. L68901. 15x21. 272 pág. Ilustraciones en b/n. Ciencia ficción Ciencia ficción Sin categorizar.
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Condition: Bueno. 22 x 15cm. 264. PLAZA & JANES, España, 1993, Castellano, 22 x 15cm, 264pp. Castellano. EN BUEN ESTADO.
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Otros Colaboradores: Observaciones: Tapa Blanda. (Spanish Edition). Tapa dura. 270 p.
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Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 1958
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good.
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Rústica. Condition: Aceptable. 1. Páginas: 272 Idioma: Castellano Descripción: Puntos de óxido y restos de humedad.
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien.
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Published by Christopher Publishing House, Norman, 1958
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1958 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original blue cloth with silver lettering spine. The book has some faint foxing-like spots to upper area of front and rear cover, clean covers, no fading, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxin…g, solid binding. The original dust jacket has some faint brown foxing-like spots rear panel, light rubbing at creases, no tears, original printed price sill present on front flap corner. The book measures 236mm tall x 152mm, and has 162 pages, 16 b/w engravings, 1 map, index. First English translation of Preuss' diaries that turned up in 1954. Includes account of Wind River Mountains exploration & first ascent of Mt Fremont (or Mt Woodrow Wilson), ascent of Pike's Peak, & travel to the Sierra Nevada near Tahoe. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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Condition: Good. Plaza & Janés. Encuadernación en tapa blanda. Clarke, Arthur Charles; Preuss, Paul; Camps, Carme Venus Prime III El juego del escondite Tapa deslucida. Tapa ilustrada. Pags.252. Volúmenes.1.
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Condition: Good. Plaza & Janés. Encuadernación en tapa blanda. Clarke, Arthur Charles; Preuss, Paul; Camps, Carme Venus Prime III El juego del escondite Tapa deslucida. Tapa ilustrada. Pags.252. Volúmenes.1.
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Condition: Good. Plaza & Janés. Encuadernación en tapa blanda. Clarke, Arthur Charles; Preuss, Paul Venus Prime II torbellino Tapa deslucida. Tapa ilustrada. Pags.269. Volúmenes.1.
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Published by PLAZA, 1993
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Condition: leido. 1. ed. edición. rúst. bolsillo.
Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 1958
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket shows signs of usage. Flyleaf with marks of tape. Otherwise a neat copy.
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Published by Plaza & Janés, 1991
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Condition: Good. Plaza & Janés. Encuadernación en tapa blanda. Clarke, Arthur Charles; Preuss, Paul; Vázquez de Parga, Roger Venus Prime I máxima tensión Tapa deslucida. Tapa ilustrada. Pags.315. Volúmenes.1.
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Published by Rütten & Loening, Berlin, 1967
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Add to basketCondition: - keine Angabe -. 1. Aufl... 8° 534 Seiten, mit Illustrationen von Gerhard Preuß; Orig.-Leinen; 730g; [Deutsch]; Schutzumschlag fehlt, Einband fingerfleckig 1. Auflage; Übersetzt von Christine Hoeppner und einem Nachwort von Horst Heintze _ xXx_. Preuß, Gerhard (illustrator). BUCH.
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Published by Gales and Seaton, Washington, 1845
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, Senate issue. 693pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Decoratively embossed brown cloth over boards, with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Spine and joints skillfully restored. Extremities moderately rubbed. Underlying boards exposed at the corners. Front free endpaper beginning to detach at the… head. Pages intermittently lightly foxed and darkened. Some uncut pages at the rear. Folding map at p. 132 has a 5" closed tear. Botanical plate at p. 312 trimmed close at fore-edge. A couple of the Fossil and Botany plates are out of order, however all are present. Complete. The second volume consists of the large map housed in a plain brown thick card clamshell (does not quite close completely) and slipcase. Title printed on the spine of the slipcase in black. The map is in good condition only with a couple of large closed, creased tears along with a handful of small splits to the folds. The tears measure approximately 18 inches long. Senate 174, 28th Congress, 2d Session. With 22 single-sided plates and 5 maps, including the large folding map by Charles Preuss. Preuss's large map of the west is one of the most fascinating government maps of the 1840's, filling in many of the gaps in the cartographic understanding of the west. John Fremont's expeditions of 1842 and 1843-44 were the most spectacular reconnaissance of the American West since Lewis and Clark. Performed under the auspices of the Army Bureau of Topographical Engineers, the expedition's published reports and maps brought a factor of dependability and trustworthiness that would aid American settlement of the West. Fremont's report contained the most detailed observations of the western territories at the time. The country covered by the report was previously terra incognito--Brigham Young is said to have used the report as a guide in bringing the Mormon people West. Utah was then part of Mexico and would first become Deseret and then Utah territory. One of the seminal works for any western or Utah collector. Wright Howes F-372 (Senate Issue). Wagner/Camp 115.1. Zamorano Eighty: 39. Moffat 12 (Large map).
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Published by [Government Printing Office], [Washington D.C.], 1849
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, 9.2 in. x 6 in. pp. 678, [1] (index). Personal copy, with gilt ownership plate to front board, of DeWitt C. Lawrence, Chief Clerk of the Patent Office. Illustrated with sixteen folding maps. Black half calf with decorative gilt chain rule over marbled boards. Rebacked spine. Gilt name on…black ownership panel to front board. Black title on paper panel to spine. Marbled endpapers. Front free endpaper detached but present. Detailed pencil notes (presumably from DeWitt Lawrence) to preliminary pages, index, and rear endpapers and to occasional penciled comments on margins of main text, providing reference and guidance. Fremont (Preuss's) maps (#II-VIII) in VG+ condition. Other maps in G+ condition with additional creases, a few short closed tears at seams, and light browning to several edges. ALL16 maps detached as they were removed for preservation and study. Maps I, IX-XVI folded in archival pocket. The PREUSS Maps II-VIII ("The Rockwell Maps") are laying flat, preserved in archival sheath, and will be mailed separately under cover). Includes additional copy of Rockwell's map of "Section III". The 16 folded maps include: #I. Map of the Country Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 1848. Rob Mills. Pencil notes on map. #II-VIII. Road from Missouri to Oregon in 7 Sections, 1848. Charles Preuss. Includes two identical copies of Section #III map. All eight Preuss maps in VG+ condition #IX. Republica Mexicana Plano del Curso del Rio Coatzacoalcos., 1843 #X. Profils en Long et en Traviors du Canal. L'Isthme de Panama,1841. Garella. #XI. Profile of That Section of the Country between Nicaragua and the South Sea, 1838. Based on Thompson's Guatamala. #XII. Nicaragua , Realejo Harbour (Edward Belcher), Harbour of San Juan de Nicaragua (George Peacock), 1832 #XIII. Chart of the Bay of Limon or Navy Bay, 1829. J.A. Lloyd. #XIV. Republica Mexicana Pano de la Parte Austral del Istmo de Tehuantepec, 1843. Jose de Garay. #XV. Panama Canal Longitudinal Section. J.A. Lloyd. Four inch closed tear with 1/2 inch chip to seam. #XVI. Carte Topographique de la Partie De L'Isthme de Panama comprise entre Panama Chagres. 1845. Garella. Uniquely annotated copy. The "first major government report devoted to interoceanic communication.Rockwell (in addition to his prime focus on Central American canals) compiled memorable documents on the suddenly urgent need for more directly binding California to the Union.Foremost.was the matchless seven-section map of the Oregon Trail made by Charles Preuss, Fremont's gifted cartographer. Lieut. G.K. Warren, in his 1859 memoir wrote that Preuss's 'skill in sketching topography in the field and in representing it on the map has probably never been surpassed in this country.' ".The Senate had issued this map separately in 1846; now the House was trying to make available to the Forty-0niners what was by far the best trail map of them all.this treasure was so deeply buried in this report that but few gold seekers found it, and it is still so rare in both editions that Wheat lamented that it ' has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history.' ." (Plains & Rockies 1800-1865: Supplemental volume to the series News of the Plains and Rockies; 2001, Arthur H. Clark, Spokane).
Published by Baltimore: E. Weber &Co., 1846., 1846
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Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. PREUSS, Charles (1803-1854). Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon Commencing at the Mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and Ending at the Mouth of the Wallah Wallah in the Columbia . From the field notes and journal of Capt. J. C. Frémont. Baltimore: E. Weber &Co., 1846. One map on 7 lithograph…ed sheets (each 16 x 26 inches), joined at right edge by a single paper guard and plastic tape (old folds, some browning and a bit thumbed, last map reinforced with plastic tape at folds, archival hangers added to the right edge). Provenance: from the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1937, with their ink library stamps, and annotations to the first map. The celebrated cartographer Charles Preuss first issued a map of this area to accompany Fremont's "A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California" (1845). Fremont's report, written with the help of his wife Jessie Benton, and Preuss's map "changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Preuss's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" (Wheat). The Frémonts' account of the journey, 'A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California . . .' (1845), enthralled the nation. Skillfully combining adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants, supplemented by a valuable map prepared by expedition cartographer Charles Preuss, it was "monumental in its breadth--a classic of exploring literature" (William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire [1966], p. 248). This new, and much enlarged map, was commissioned by the Senate of the United States, and reproduces the area in much greater detail. It "was a road guide for Oregon emigrants such as had never previously existed. The purview of each section is quite narrowly limited to the emigrant road, but the topography is developed in rather more detail than on the parent map. Owing to its rarity and to its having long stood in the shadow of the much more widely known and distributed Fremont map of 1845, Preuss's sectional map of 1846 has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history." (Wheat). The individual sections of this magnificent map are: Section I: The map begins in the east at Westport, Kansas (now known as Kansas City), the departure point for the Oregon Trail, and ends in southern Nebraska at the crossing to Platte river. The "Remarks" on the maps state: "This section abounds with grass, water and fuel so that emigrants may encamp almost anywhere. (3). Elk and deer, the only game, are very scarce." Section II: Begins near present-day Marquette, Nebraska, and goes as far as present day Ogallala, Nebraska. The "Remarks" state that "Timber is extremely scarce., except on the islands. Some driftwood and Buffalo excrement makes the fuel, as that of the camels does in the deserts of Arabia". Several quotes from Fremont's report are included in the margins: "Buffalo swarming in immense numbers over the plains, where they had left scarcely a blade of grass. Indians and buffalo make the poetry and life of the prairie, and our camp was full of their exhilaration". Section III: Begins near Sidney, Nebraska (near the Colorado border), and goes to what is now Casper, Wyoming. Remarks state that the "Sioux Indians are not to be trusted". Fort Laramie is shown, and the remarks point out that there is very little game to 50 miles either side of the station: "If it is in contemplation to keep open the communications with Oregon Territory, a show of military force in this country is absolutely necessary and a combination of atvantages [sic] renders the neighborhood of Fort Laramie the most suitable place on the line of the Platte for the establishment of a military po.
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Published by Baltimore: E. Weber & Co., 1846., 1846
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. One map on 7 lithographed sheets (each 16 x 26 2/8 inches), joined at right edge by a single paper guard, so as to be more easily read by the navigator riding shotgun, and folded (one or two spots); preserved in a modern blue cloth clamshell box. The celebrated cartographer Charles Preuss first issued a map of this ar…ea to accompany Fremont's "A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California" (1845). Fremont's report, written with the help of his wife Jessie Benton, and Preuss's map "changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Preuss's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" (Wheat). The Frémonts' account of the journey, 'A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California . . .' (1845), enthralled the nation. Skillfully combining adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants, supplemented by a valuable map prepared by expedition cartographer Charles Preuss, it was "monumental in its breadth--a classic of exploring literature" (William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire [1966], p. 248). This new, and much enlarged map, was commissioned by the Senate of the United States, and reproduces the area in much greater detail. It "was a road guide for Oregon emigrants such as had never previously existed. The purview of each section is quite narrowly limited to the emigrant road, but the topography is developed in rather more detail than on the parent map. Owing to its rarity and to its having long stood in the shadow of the much more widely known and distributed Fremont map of 1845, Preuss's sectional map of 1846 has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history." (Wheat). The individual sections of this magnificent map are: Section I: The map begins in the east at Westport, Kansas (now known as Kansas City), the departure point for the Oregon Trail, and ends in southern Nebraska at the crossing to Platte river. The "Remarks" on the maps state: "This section abounds with grass, water and fuel so that emigrants may encamp almost anywhere. (3). Elk and deer, the only game, are very scarce." Section II: Begins near present-day Marquette, Nebraska, and goes as far as present day Ogallala, Nebraska. The "Remarks" state that "Timber is extremely scarce., except on the islands. Some driftwood and Buffalo excrement makes the fuel, as that of the camels does in the deserts of Arabia". Several quotes from Fremont's report are included in the margins: "Buffalo swarming in immense numbers over the plains, where they had left scarcely a blade of grass. Indians and buffalo make the poetry and life of the prairie, and our camp was full of their exhilaration". Section III: Begins near Sidney, Nebraska (near the Colorado border), and goes to what is now Casper, Wyoming. Remarks state that the "Sioux Indians are not to be trusted". Fort Laramie is shown, and the remarks point out that there is very little game to 50 miles either side of the station: "If it is in contemplation to keep open the communications with Oregon Territory, a show of military force in this country is absolutely necessary and a combination of atvantages [sic] renders the neighborhood of Fort Laramie the most suitable place on the line of the Platte for the establishment of a military post". Section IV: Begins near Casper, Wyoming, and goes to present-day Fontenelle, Wyoming, including South Pass and the Wind River Mountains. Quotations from Fremont's report discuss the Continental Divide: "We mounted the barometer in the snow of the summit.giving 13,570 feet for the elevation above the Gulf of Mexico. Fields of snow lay far below us: boundless mountains stretched before us. A stillness the most prof.
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Published by Baltimore: E. Weber &Co., 1846., 1846
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Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. PREUSS, Charles (1803-1854). Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon Commencing at the Mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and Ending at the Mouth of the Wallah Wallah in the Columbia . From the field notes and journal of Capt. J. C. Frémont. Baltimore: E. Weber &Co., 1846. One map on 7 lithograph…ed sheets (each 16 x 26 2/8 inches), joined at right edge by a single paper guard (some browning and a bit thumbed). Provenance: With an early manuscript title on the verso of the last section; with the ink duplicate stamp of Brown University also on the verso of the last section. The celebrated cartographer Charles Preuss first issued a map of this area to accompany Fremont's "A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California" (1845). Fremont's report, written with the help of his wife Jessie Benton, and Preuss's map "changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Preuss's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" (Wheat). The Frémonts' account of the journey, 'A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California . . .' (1845), enthralled the nation. Skillfully combining adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants, supplemented by a valuable map prepared by expedition cartographer Charles Preuss, it was "monumental in its breadth--a classic of exploring literature" (William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire [1966], p. 248). This new, and much enlarged map, was commissioned by the Senate of the United States, and reproduces the area in much greater detail. It "was a road guide for Oregon emigrants such as had never previously existed. The purview of each section is quite narrowly limited to the emigrant road, but the topography is developed in rather more detail than on the parent map. Owing to its rarity and to its having long stood in the shadow of the much more widely known and distributed Fremont map of 1845, Preuss's sectional map of 1846 has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history." (Wheat). The individual sections of this magnificent map are: Section I: The map begins in the east at Westport, Kansas (now known as Kansas City), the departure point for the Oregon Trail, and ends in southern Nebraska at the crossing to Platte river. The "Remarks" on the maps state: "This section abounds with grass, water and fuel so that emigrants may encamp almost anywhere. (3). Elk and deer, the only game, are very scarce." Section II: Begins near present-day Marquette, Nebraska, and goes as far as present day Ogallala, Nebraska. The "Remarks" state that "Timber is extremely scarce., except on the islands. Some driftwood and Buffalo excrement makes the fuel, as that of the camels does in the deserts of Arabia". Several quotes from Fremont's report are included in the margins: "Buffalo swarming in immense numbers over the plains, where they had left scarcely a blade of grass. Indians and buffalo make the poetry and life of the prairie, and our camp was full of their exhilaration". Section III: Begins near Sidney, Nebraska (near the Colorado border), and goes to what is now Casper, Wyoming. Remarks state that the "Sioux Indians are not to be trusted". Fort Laramie is shown, and the remarks point out that there is very little game to 50 miles either side of the station: "If it is in contemplation to keep open the communications with Oregon Territory, a show of military force in this country is absolutely necessary and a combination of atvantages [sic] renders the neighborhood of Fort Laramie the most suitable place on the line of the Platte for the establishment of a military post". Section IV: Begins near Casper, Wyoming, and goes to present-d.
