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    <title>Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842</title>
    <subTitle>and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Frémont, John Charles</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1813-1890</namePart>
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    <namePart>Torrey, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1796-1873</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hall, James</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1811-1898</namePart>
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    <namePart>United States</namePart>
    <namePart>Army.</namePart>
    <namePart>Corps of Engineers.</namePart>
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    <namePart>John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Blair and Rives, Printers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1845</dateIssued>
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    <extent>583 p., [25] p. of plates : ill., maps (some fold.) ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>A report on an exploration of the country lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, on the line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers.--Catalogue of plants ... By John Torrey.--Astronomical observations (p. 99-101).--A report of the exploring expedition to Oregon and north California.--Table of distances along the road travelled by the expedition in 1842 and 1844.--Appendix. A. Geological formations, by James Hall. B. Organic remains, by James Hall. C. Notes concerning the plants collected in the second expedition, by John Torrey.--Astronomical observations made during the expedition of 1843-'44.--Meteorological observations, 1843-'44.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Brevet Capt. J.C. Frémont ; under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau ; printed by order of the House of Representatives.</note>
  <note>The Astronomical and Meteorological observations of the 1842 expedition, which form p. 585-693 of the Senate edition (Senate ex. doc. 174) are not included in this.</note>
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    <geographic>West (U.S.)</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Pacific States</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <geographic>Rocky Mountains</geographic>
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    <topic>Paleontology</topic>
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    <geographic>California</geographic>
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