Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-1844

by John Charles Frémont

First edition.  Washington:  Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States by Gales and Seaton, 1845 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Publisher's brown cloth covers have blind tooled borders and decorative motifs. 
• Boards show some age, bumps, smudges, stains, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, frayed with exposed board.  See photos. 
• Spine has gilt text and is clear, with crushed and frayed ends.  See photos. 
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps have notable foxing, staining, owner's marks.  See photos.
• Two foldout maps, two full page maps are present.
• Preuss folding map from rear pocket is absent.
• Illustrations are clear. 
• Interior is age-toned, some gatherings exhibit shadows, some spots and stains.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2024.0410

693 pages. 5 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches

A very good copy of this First edition of Frémont's report.  The Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions.  With two folding maps and two full page maps, lacking the large folding Pruess map from the rear pocket. 

In 1842 John Charles Frémont was commissioned to head a 25-man, four-month expedition to survey and map the region of the emerging Oregon Trail through South Pass on the Continental Divide.  The lively, factually detailed government report that Frémont and his wife produced after the journey caught the public imagination: images of Frémont's guide, the then little-known Christopher 'Kit' Carson, riding bareback across the prairie, and Frémont himself, raising a flag on a Rocky Mountain peak, entered the national mythology.  This first expedition was followed by a seond, in 1843, to the Oregon region.  By the time the expedition returned east across the southern rim of what Frémont defined as the Great Basin, they had completed a bold fourteen-month circuit of the West, traveling 6,475 miles by their own calculations.  The Frémonts' account of the journey enthralled the nation with its combination of adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants. 

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