Download or read book The Topographical Reports of Lieutenant George H Derby written by George Horatio Derby and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book George H Derby Collection written by George Horation Derby and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photostat copies (1931) of topographical survey reports by Lt. George Derby, of the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers, for exploratory trips to Tulare Valley, Calif. (Apr. 10-June 8, 1850), the Colorado River (Oct. 12, 1850-Mar. 6, 1851), and the San Diego River (reported Mar. 30, 1853). The first two trips include copies of the reports as printed in the Congressional Record. The Colorado River trip report includes printed maps. Also includes a newspaper clipping (Oct. 1969) featuring a humorous anecdote about Derby.

Download or read book The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California written by Gary Clayton Anderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the army’s topographical engineer in California from 1849 to 1851, George Horatio Derby wrote detailed reports on the region, its people, its resources, and its geography—providing critical information for an understaffed military charged with bringing order to a vast new empire along the Pacific Slope. Early maps and reports by pioneers, trappers, and newspapermen, even by such professionals as John C. Frémont and William Emory, were limited in scope and often unreliable. In contrast, those authored by Derby and the army’s other trained topographical engineers were remarkably accurate, extensive, and richly descriptive. Long buried in the files of the National Archives, they have also remained largely unknown, even to historians. Collected and reproduced here for the first time, these journals and maps offer a new and unique perspective on California in the mid-nineteenth century. Derby’s reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson, William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells, and Erasmus Darwin Keyes. These documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on Native and white populations. The writers’ detailed, often witty insights offer new understandings of life in California during an era of momentous change. Historian Gary Clayton Anderson and anthropologist Laura Lee Anderson provide historical, geographic, and biographical context in the book’s introduction and in headnotes and annotations for each journal. With these editorial enhancements, the documents reveal as much of the character of their authors and their time as of the land and peoples they so carefully describe.

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Download or read book Derby s Report on Opening the Colorado 1850 1851 written by George Horatio Derby and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent introduction and footnotes. Derby's own sketches and charts are also reproduced here.

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