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SIGHT UNSEEN: How Fremont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape.
Edition: First printing.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - An in-depth look at how Fremont's report on his expedition in 1842 "altered American views of geography, progress, and the need for a transcontinental railroad as well as provoking the great migration to Oregon and providing an aesthetic justification for the national park system. By helping to shape the very notion of Manifest Destiny, the report became one of the most important documents in the history of American landscape." On this expedition he and a small party of men journeyed up the Kansas and Platte Rivers to the Wind River Range in Wyoming, a region known as the Great Desert. Maps and illustrations. Notes and index. xxix, 249 pp. ISBN: 978-0803238077.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 89378More details Price: $27.50