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Navaho Expedition - American Exploration and Travel by James H Simpson Paperback

Name: Navaho Expedition - (American Exploration and Travel) by James H Simpson (Paperback)
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In 1849, the Corps of Topographical Engineers commissioned Lieutenant James H. Simpson to undertake the first survey of Navaho country in present-day New Mexico.
Author(s): James H Simpson
398 Pages
History, Military
Series Name: American Exploration and Travel

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In 1849, the Corps of Topographical Engineers commissioned Lieutenant James H. Simpson to undertake the first survey of Navaho country in present-day New Mexico. Accompanying Simpson was a military force commanded by Colonel John M. Washington, sent to negotiate peace with the Navaho Indians. A keen observer, Simpson kept a journal that provided valuable information on the party's interactions with Indians and also about the land's features, including important pueblo ruins at Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly. His careful observations informed subsequent military expeditions, emigrant trains, the selection of Indian reservations, and the charting of a transcontinental railroad.

Editor Frank McNitt discusses the expedition's lasting importance to the development of the West, and his research is enriched by illustrations and maps by artists Richard and Edward Kern. Military historian Durwood Ball contributes a new foreword.

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"Frank McNitt makes the coin of the past ring true.... He has given us the New Mexico-Arizona world as it looked on the eve of an era during which U.S. traders and government people were to become a daily factor in Navajo and Pueblo life."--New Mexico Quarterly

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.98 Inches (H) x 5.94 Inches (W) x .86 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.17 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 398

Genre: History

Sub-Genre: Military

Series Title: American Exploration and Travel

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Theme: United States

Format: Paperback

Author: James H Simpson

Language: English

Street Date: November 3, 2003

TCIN: 88975948

UPC: 9780806135700

Item Number (DPCI): 247-56-8786

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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