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



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Autore: Rowan Steven W Visualizza persona
Titolo: The baron in the Grand Canyon : Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West / / Steven Rowan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Columbia, Mo. ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Disciplina: 526.092
Soggetto topico: Cartographers - United States
Explorers - West (U.S.)
Germans - United States
Surveyors - United States
Soggetto geografico: West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West
Titolo autorizzato: The baron in the Grand Canyon  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8262-7283-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786199703321
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