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Contents Preface I II III IV V VI VII Abbreviations in the Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index The Severed Bear’s Head Franconia, Bavaria, and Prussia, 1824–1848 Egloffstein and Zwanziger, Surveyors St. Louis, 1849–1853 Solomon Carvalho’s Excellent Adventure With Frémont over the Rockies; Great Salt Lake City Idyll Views of Mount Shasta To California with Beckwith, 1854 A New Style of Topographical Drawing Washington, DC, and the Pacific Railroad Reports The Thoughts of God Up the Colorado with Ives, 1857–1858 The Last Plates Farewell to the West, 1861–1885 vii 1 10 30 47 75 94 152 165 167 191 205 ...

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