(FMT)Contents(\)
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Glory Grabber or Reliable Wheelhorse?
2 The Ultimate Destination Is India
3 Across the Ocean Prairie
4 Twenty-Five Wild, Daring-Looking Fellows Join the
Expedition
5 A Continuous Succession of Mountain Ranges Lay in Our Path
6 The Artist as Hero of His Own Journey
7 We Will Be on Mule Meat before We Are Through
8 The Mountain Spur Was a Confused Mass of Serrated Crests
9 Lieutenant Tidball Ordered the Soldiers to Fix Their
Bayonets
10 The Clothes of the Murdered Mexican Were Riddled with
Arrows
11 I Will Not Have to Go Back to That Miserable Place
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Figure Credits
Index
(FMT)Figures(\)
Amiel Weeks Whipple
Balduin Möllhausen
Map of the route of the 35th Parallel Pacific Railroad Survey
Fort Defiance, 1860
John C. Tidball
San Francisco Mountain
Black Forest, Pichaco, and Mountains North of Aztec Pass
View of Aztec Pass
Bivouac, Jan. 26
Bivouac, Jan. 28
Cereus Giganteus, on Bill Williams Fork
Dr. Bigelow's Moment of Triumph
Valley of Bill Williams Fork
Artillery Peak
Cañon of Bill Williams Fork
The Mule of Total Depravity
Camp Scene in the Mojave Valley of the Rio Colorado
Mojave Dwelling
Valley of the Mojave
Irrataba
Officers of Battery A, Second Artillery
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Tidball, John C, (John Caldwell), 1825-1906, Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817?-1863, Southwest, New Discovery and exploration, Southwest, New Description and travel, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Indians of North America Southwest, New History 19th century, Surveying Southwest, New History 19th century, Explorers Southwest, New Biography, Soldiers Southwest, New Biography, Artists Southwest, New Biography