| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits, digital file |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885.
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Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885
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Egloffstein, F. W., 1824-1885 fast |
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Surveyors -- United States -- Biography
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Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Germans -- United States -- Biography
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Cartographers -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
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Cartographers
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Discoveries in geography
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Explorers
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Germans
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Surveyors
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West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration
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United States
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826272836 |
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0826272835 |
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0826219829 |
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9780826219824 |
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