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Reports of Explorations:

History, US

Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 47 No. 422
Title: The development of the cartography of America up to the year 1570.
Author/s: Ruge, Sophus
Dates: 1/1/1492 - 12/31/1570
State or Area: North America, South America
Other Information: Maps
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 48 No. 436
Title: The discovery of Nebraska, and a visit to Nebraska in 1662. Read before the Nebraska Historical Society in 1880 and 1885.
Author/s: Savage, James Woodruff
Dates: 1/1/1662 - 12/31/1662
State or Area: Nebraska
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 52 No. 490
Title: Notes on an early chart of Long Island Sound and its approaches.
Author/s: Townshend, Chales Hervey
Dates: 1/1/1700 - 12/31/1720
State or Area: Eastern US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 1 No. 3
Title: An account of Louisiana. 1803. Being an abstract of documents in the Office of the Departments of State and of the Treasury.
Author/s: U.S. Department of State
Dates: 1/1/1803 - 12/31/1803
State or Area: Louisiana
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 43 No. 394
Title: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana, to the sources of the Arkansas, Kansas, La Platte, and Pierre Juan rivers; performed by order of the Government of the United States during…
Author/s: Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
Dates: 1/1/1805 - 12/31/1807
State or Area: Southern US, Western US
Other Information: Maps
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 28-29 No. 302
Title: Account of an expediton from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and 1820, by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec. of War: under the command of Major S. H. Long. From the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen…
Author/s: E. James, S. H. Long, T. Say
Dates: 1/1/1819 - 12/31/1820
State or Area: Eastern US, Central US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 2 No. 15
Title: Letters from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1st inst. respecting the movements of the Expedition which lately ascended the Missouri River.
Author/s: Atkinson, Henry
Dates: 1/1/1825 - 12/31/1825
State or Area: Missouri
Other Information: Rivers
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 53 No. 497
Title: Exploration of the Northwest coast. Report... as respects the establishment of a military post at the mouth of the Columbia River, and the expediency of providing for the more perfect exploring of the Northwest coast of America.
Author/s: U.S. Columbia River Military Post Committee
Dates: 1/1/1828 - 12/31/1828
State or Area: Northwest US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 41 No. 382
Title: Letter from Dr. Joseph Paxton, of Hempstead County, to the Hon. A. H. Sevier, delegate to Congress from the Territory of Arkansas, in relation to the raft of Red River.
Author/s: Paxton, Joseph
Dates: 1/1/1828 - 12/31/1828
State or Area: Arkansas
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 48 No. 439
Title: Expedition into the Indian country. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting... an account of the recent Expedition of H. R. Schoolcraft into the Indian Country.
Author/s: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Dates: 1/1/1832 - 12/31/1832
State or Area: Midwest US, Western US, Canada
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 65-72 No. 546
Title: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838-1842. During the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N... Phila., C. Sherman, 1844-76.
Author/s: C. Wilkes, H. Hale, J. D. Dana, J. Cassin, C. Pickering, A. A. Gould, A. Gray, W. D. Brankenridge, C. Girard, C. Sherman
Dates: 1/1/1838 - 12/31/1842
State or Area: Northwest US Coast, Antarctic
Other Information: Ethnography, Philology, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Geology, Meteorology, Botany, Herpetology, Hydrography
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 2 No. 11
Title: Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report, journal, and map of Captain J. Allen, of the First Regiment of Dragoons, of his Expedition to the heads of the rivers Des Moines, Blue Earth, and etc, in the…
Author/s: Allen, J
Dates: 8/11/1844 - 10/3/1844
State or Area: Missouri, Iowa
Other Information: Rivers
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 35 No. 358
Title: Report intended to illustrate a map of the hydrographical basin of the upper Mississippi River...Washington, Blair, and Rives, 1845.
Author/s: J. N. Nicollet, J. Torrey
Dates: 1/1/1845 - 12/31/1845
State or Area: Missouri
Other Information: Botany, Paleontology
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 4 No. 59
Title: Report from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of the 21st Feb. 1849, a copy of the official journal...from Santa Fe to San Diego, etc.
Author/s: Cooke, Philip St. George
Dates: 1/1/1846 - 12/31/1847
State or Area: Southwest US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 72 No. 552
Title: Pembina Settlement. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Major Wood, relative to his expedition to Pembina Settlement, and the condition of affairs on the northwestern frontier of the Territory of Minnesota in 1849.
Author/s: Woods, S.
Dates: 1/1/1849 - 12/31/1849
State or Area: North Dakota
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 43 No. 396
Title: Report of the Secretary of War, communicating the report of an exploration of the Territory of Minnesota to the Red River of the North, made in the summer of 1849.
Author/s: Pope, John
Dates: 6/1/1849 - 8/31/1849
State or Area: Minnesota
Other Information: Map
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 6 No. 75
Title: Journal of an expedition to the Mauvaises Terres and the upper Missouri in 1850.
Author/s: Culbertson, Thaddeus A.
Dates: 1/1/1850 - 12/31/1850
State or Area: Missouri
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 32 No. 337
Title: Routes from the western boundary of Arkansas to Santa Fe and the Valley of the Rio Grande.
Author/s: Michler, N.
Dates: 1/1/1850 - 12/31/1850
State or Area: Western US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 30 No. 321
Title: Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852.
Author/s: R. B. Marcy, G. B. McClellan
Dates: 1/1/1852 - 12/31/1852
State or Area: Louisiana
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 21 No. 228
Title: Journal of an exploration of western Missouri in 1854, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution.
Author/s: Hoy, Philo Romayne
Dates: 1/1/1854 - 12/31/1854
State or Area: Missouri
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 4 No. 53
Title: Correspondance. Topography of Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Author/s: Clingman, Thomas Lanier
Dates: 1/1/1855 - 12/31/1855
State or Area: North Carolina
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 61 No. 523
Title: Explorations in the Dakota country, in the year 1855.
Author/s: Warren, Gouverneur Kemble
Dates: 1/1/1855 - 12/31/1855
State or Area: South Dakota, North Dakota
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 27 No. 277
Title: Abstract of an historical account of explorations made on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from the earliest times to the present.
Author/s: Kohl, Johann Georg
Dates: 1/1/1856 - 12/31/1856
State or Area: Eastern US Coast
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 27 No. 278
Title: Abstract of an historical memoir concerning the progress of exploration on the Atlantic coast of the United States, from its discovery to the present time.
Author/s: Kohl, Johann Georg
Dates: 1/1/1856 - 12/31/1856
State or Area: Eastern US Coast
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 27 No. 281
Title: Substance of a lecture delivered at the Smithsonian Institution on a collection of the charts and maps of America.
Author/s: Kohl, Johann Georg
Dates: 1/1/1856 - 12/31/1856
State or Area: United States
Other Information: Maps
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 27 No. 285
Title: Practicality of railraods through the South Pass. Letter form the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report from F. W. Lander, relative to the practicability of a railroad through the South Pass.
Author/s: Lander, Frederick West
Dates: 1/1/1858 - 12/31/1858
State or Area: Midwest US, Western US
Other Information: Railroads
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 61 No. 524
Title: Report of the explorations in Nebraksa.
Author/s: Warren, Gouverneur Kemble
Dates: 1/1/1858 - 12/31/1858
State or Area: Nebraska
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 45 No. 406
Title: Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate Feb. 13, 1866, the Report of Brevet Brigadier Gen., W. F. Raynolds, on the exploration of the Yellowstone and the country drained by that river.
Author/s: W. F. Raynolds
Dates: 1/1/1867 - 12/31/1867
State or Area: Montana
Other Information: Map
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 53-58 No. 498-509
Title: Annual report of the United States Geological and geographical survey of the Territiories.
Author/s: Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer
Dates: 1/1/1867 - 12/31/1883
State or Area: Western US
Other Information: Geology
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 2 No. 19
Title: Geographical names on the coast of Maine.
Author/s: Ballard, Edward
Dates: 1/1/1868 - 12/31/1868
State or Area: Maine
Other Information: Coast Survey
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 1 No. 9
Title: Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of 19th of December last, transmitting correspondence in relation to Russian America.
Author/s: U.S. President, Johnson
Dates: 1/1/1868 - 12/31/1868
State or Area: Alaska
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 17 No. 180-186
Title: Papers on the eastern and northern extensions of the Gulf Stream. From the German of Dr. A. Petermann, Dr. W von Freeden, and Dr. A. Muhry. Tr. In the United States Hydrographic Office...by E. R. Knorr.
Author/s: E. R. Knorr, W. I. A. von Freeden, A. H. Petermann, A. Muhry
Dates: 1/1/1871 - 12/31/1871
State or Area: North Atlantic Ocean, Arctic
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 46 No. 412
Title: Report of a reconnaissance of the Missouri River in 1872.
Author/s: Roberts, Thomas Paschall
Dates: 1/1/1872 - 12/31/1872
State or Area: Midwest US, Western US
Other Information: Maps
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 62-64 No. 531-539
Title: Report upon United States geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian in charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler…
Author/s: A. A. Humphreys, H. G. Wright, G. M. Wheeler
Dates: 1/1/1872 - 12/31/1889
State or Area: Western US
Other Information: Astronomy, Geology, Paleontology, Zoology, Botany, Archaeology
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 53 No. 496
Title: List of hemiptera of the region west of the Mississippi River, including those during the Hayden explorations of 1873.
Author/s: Uhler, Philip Reese
Dates: 1/1/1873 - 12/31/1873
State or Area: Western US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 61 No. 522
Title: An essay concerning important physical features exhibited in the valley of the Minnesota River, and upon their signification.
Author/s: Warren, Gouverneur Kemble
Dates: 1/1/1874 - 12/31/1874
State or Area: Minnesota
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 19 No. 210
Title: Reports upon the specimens obtained from borings made in 1874 between the Missisippi River and Lake Borgne, at the site proposed for an outlet for flood waters, by Eugene W. Hilgard and F. V. Hopkins. With a letter of transmittal from G. K. Warren…
Author/s: E. W. Hilgard, F. V. Hopkins
Dates: 1/1/1874 - 12/31/1874
State or Area: Mississippi River
Other Information: Flood Control
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 29 No. 306
Title: Report of a reconnaissance of the Black Hills of Dakota, made in the summer of 1874.
Author/s: Ludlow, William
Dates: 6/1/1874 - 9/30/1874
State or Area: South Dakota
Other Information: Paleontology
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 29 No. 307
Title: Report of a reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and return, made in the summer of 1875.
Author/s: Ludlow, William
Dates: 6/1/1875 - 9/30/1875
State or Area: Montana
Other Information: Maps
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 33 No. 347
Title: Notes on the Tertiary and Cretaceous periods of Kansas.
Author/s: Mudge, Bejamin Franklin
Dates: 1/1/1876 - 12/31/1876
State or Area: Kansas
Other Information: Geology
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 28 No. 301
Title: A journal of the marches made by the forces under the command of Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Fifth Infantry, in 1876 and 1877, by Lieut. O. F. Long.
Author/s: O. F. Long, N. A. Miles
Dates: 1/1/1876 - 12/31/1877
State or Area: Western US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 3 No. 33
Title: Reports of inspection made in the summer of 1877 by Generals P. H. Sheridan, and W. T. Sherman, of country north of the Union Pacific Railroad. Printed by order of the Secretary of War.
Author/s: P. H. Sheridan, W. T. Sherman
Dates: 6/1/1877 - 8/31/1877
State or Area: Northwest US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 29 No. 308
Title: Report of a visit to the Luray Cavern, in Page County, Virginia, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, July 13 and 14, 1880.
Author/s: Smithsonian Institution
Dates: 7/13/1880 - 7/14/1880
State or Area: Virginia
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 51 No. 480
Title: Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1882, a letter...respecting the navigable waters of the upper Columbia River and its tributaries.
Author/s: Symons, Thomas William
Dates: 1/1/1882 - 12/31/1882
State or Area: Northwest US
Other Information: Maps
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 19 No. 206
Title: Animal carvings from mounds of the Mississippi Valley.
Author/s: Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee
Dates: 1/1/1883 - 12/31/1883
State or Area: Mississippi
Other Information: Mound Builders
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 27 No. 279
Title: History of discovery and exploration on the coasts of the United States.
Author/s: Kohl, Johann Georg
Dates: 1/1/1885 - 12/31/1885
State or Area: Eastern US Coast, Western US Coast
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 23 No. 257
Title: Report; the iron regions of northern Louisiana and eastern Texas.
Author/s: Johnson, Lawrence Clement
Dates: 1/1/1888 - 12/31/1888
State or Area: Louisiana, Texas
Other Information: Iron Mines and Mining
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 2 No. 12
Title: The Mississippi and its fourty-five navigable tributaries. A descriptive, commercial, and statistical review, illustrated with three diagrams. Being Part V of the Report by W. F. Switzler, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, on the internal commerce…
Author/s: Anderson, Alexander Dwight
Dates: 1/1/1888 - 12/31/1888
State or Area: Mississippi River
Other Information: Rivers
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 24 No. 264
Title: Report of explorations made during the summer and autumn of 1888 in the Alleghany region of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and in western Indiana, with an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins of these regions.
Author/s: Jordan, David Starr
Dates: 6/1/1888 - 11/30/1888
State or Area: Eastern US, Southern US
Other Information: Fish
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 14 No. 164
Title: The history of the Niagara River. Extracted from the sixth Annual report of the commissioner of the State Reservation of Niagara, for the year 1889.
Author/s: Gilbert, Grove Karl
Dates: 1/1/1889 - 12/31/1889
State or Area: Eastern US
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Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 61 No. 530
Title: The Potomac and Roaring Creek coal fields in West Virginia.
Author/s: Weeks, Joseph Dame
Dates: 1/1/1893 - 12/31/1893
State or Area: West Virginia
Other Information: Coal Mines
 
Call Number: Q115 .R74 1971 Reel 43 No. 389
Title: Virginia cartography; a bibliographical description, 1896.
Author/s: Phillips, Philip Lee
Dates: 1/1/1896 - 12/31/1896
State or Area: Virginia
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