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Sights Once Seen Daguerreotyping Frémont's Last Expedition Through the Rockies
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Sights Once Seen Daguerreotyping Frémont's Last Expedition Through the Rockies Hardcover - 2000

by Robert Shlaer


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Fremont's final expedition to survey the 38th parallel was lost in a fire. Now history's great adventure is retold in daguerreotypes of the entire expedition route.

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  • Title Sights Once Seen Daguerreotyping Frémont's Last Expedition Through the Rockies
  • Author Robert Shlaer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 176
  • Publisher Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM
  • Date March 15, 2000
  • ISBN 9780890133408
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Santa Fe NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 165 pages. Little is known about the fifth and last western expedition of the celebrated explorer John Charles Frmont. The great effort to survey a transcontinental railway route across the 38th parallel ended short of success in the snows of Utah in 1854 but involved a meticulous photographic documentation-in daguerreotypes-of the route from the Mississippi westward. It was believed that a central railroad across the country would favor abolitionists in the great debate then raging in the country over slavery. Solomon Nunes Carvalho was hired by Frmont to photograph the expedition-the first time a western expeditionary survey had been systematically documented in photographs. Tragically, the daguerreotypes were destroyed by fire, and Fremont's fifth expedition was lost to history. Author and daguerreotypist Robert Shlaer remarkably has reconstructed the expedition in 120 original… Read More
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