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Geographical Memoir upon Upper California

Geographical Memoir upon Upper California

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FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES. Geographical Memoir upon Upper California, in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California. By John Charles Fremont: Addressed to the Senate of the United States. Washington: Tippin & Streeper, 1849. 40pp.+detached folding map: Map of Oregon and Upper California From the Surveys of John Charles Fremont and Other Authorities. Washington: E. Weber & Co., 1848. 49.3 x 42.4 cm. Original printed self-wrappers. Uncut and untrimmed. Edges somewhat chipped. Else very good. 

Wagner-Camp 150:2. Howes F366. Wheat Trans-Mississippi West 559: "The map and Geographical Memoir have a two-fold importance in history, first as contributions to geographical knowledge in the year 1848, and second as historic documents concerning Fremont's notable Third expedition. Let us consider them in this second aspect first, for they constitute the only detailed reports ever made by Fremont on his expedition of 1845-1846; his journals subsequently were burned, and by the time he came to write his Memoirs he had forgotten nearly everything he did not remember incorrectly."

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