Description |
1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) :) : illustrations, maps, portraits, digital file |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885.
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Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885. |
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Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885. |
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Surveyors -- United States -- Biography.
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Surveyors. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
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Explorers. |
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Germans -- United States -- Biography.
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Germans. |
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Cartographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Cartographers. |
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West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: 0826219829 9780826219824 |
ISBN |
9780826272836 |
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0826272835 |
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0826219829 |
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9780826219824 |
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9780826219824 |
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0826219829 |
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9780826219824 |
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