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Author Rowan, Steven W.

Title The baron in the Grand Canyon : Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West / Steven Rowan.

Publication Info. Columbia [Mo.] : University of Missouri Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) :) : illustrations, maps, portraits, digital file
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
Contents Preface -- 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 Fremont 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 -- Abbreviations in the notes and bibliography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer of the American West.
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Subject Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885.
Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885.
Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885.
Surveyors -- United States -- Biography.
Surveyors.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Explorers.
Germans -- United States -- Biography.
Germans.
Cartographers -- United States -- Biography.
Cartographers.
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 0826219829 9780826219824
ISBN 9780826272836
0826272835
0826219829
9780826219824
9780826219824
0826219829
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