Report Upon the Reconnaissance of Northwestern Wyoming: Including Yellowstone National Park, Made in the Summer of 1873U.S. Government Printing Office, 1875 - 331 sider |
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Report Upon the Reconnaissance of Northwestern Wyoming: Including ... United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,William Albert Jones Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1875 |
Report Upon the Reconnaissance of Northwestern Wyoming: Including ... United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,William Albert Jones Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1875 |
Report Upon the Reconnaissance of Northwestern Wyoming: Including ... United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,William Albert Jones Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1875 |
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Side 297 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Brig. Gen., and Chief of Engineers.
Side iii - The Secretary of War has the honor to transmit to the House of Representatives, for the information of the Committee on Patents, in response to a letter of the 10th instant from Hon.
Side 297 - Major of Engineers. Hon. WM. W. BELKNAP, Secretary of War. Approved : By order of the Secretary of War. HT CROSBY, Chief Clerk. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 19, 1875.
Side 299 - Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. WAR DEPARTMENT, December 10, 1874.
Side 60 - Shoshonee range without being deprived of much of its vapor. It is not only checked in its course by this high, cool wall, but the tremendous acicular ridge of the Tetons stands in such a position as to produce a strong eddy about the headwaters of the Snake and over the lake basin.
Side 302 - ... is hereby appropriated for that purpose out of any money in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of that Department, according to the laws authorizing debentures or drawbacks and allowances.
Side 302 - Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr.
Side 206 - The composition of the products of the springs of this group is not difficult to explain if it be true, as there is every reason to believe, that...
Side 36 - ... the other into the one behind us — the one following its destiny through the Snake and Columbia Rivers back to its home in the Pacific; the other, through the Yellowstone and Missouri, seeking the foreign water of the Atlantic by one of the longest voyages known to running water. On the Snake River side of the divide the stream becomes comparatively large at once, being fed by many springs, and a great deal of marsh.
Side 239 - Shoshones," an observer writes, " though mostly provided with tools of iron and steel of approved patterns, are still to be seen employing, as a scraper in the dressing of skins, a mere teshoa...