Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West: With Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains, Including Three Months' Residence in Utah, and a Perilous Trip Across the Great American Desert to the Pacific

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U of Nebraska Press, 2004 M01 1 - 130 páginas
n August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Fremont's invitation to join his fifth expedition to find the best overland route to California. A Baltimore artist, inventor, and daguerreotypist, Carvalho was given the job of creating a photographic record of the lands and peoples along the way. Fremont's party left the Missouri on September 14, 1853, traveled up the Kansas River, overland to the Arkansas, upriver past Bent's Fort to the Huerfano, and traversed the Sandhill Pass into the Rocky Mountains. Beset by heavy snows and intense cold, they were reduced to eating their horses and mules and the occasional beaver or porcupine while making their way in midwinter across the Grand, Green, and Sevier Rivers. Suffering from frostbite, scurvy, and dysentery, Carvalho left the expedition in Utah; spent four months among the Mormons in Salt Lake City, where he observed with keen interest their system of spiritual wives; and reached California in 1854. Carvalho became the first Jewish writer to publish accounts of the Great American West and was also one of the first people to photograph the American West. Although only one of his plates is known to survive, others became the models for wood and steel engravings that broadcast the image of the West throughout the world. This Bison Books edition restores the discourses on Mormon doctrine omitted from previous twentieth-century editions. Ava F. Kahn is a visiting scholar at the California Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849-1880; Jewish Life in the American West: Perspectives on Migration, Settlement, and Community; and California Jews (coedited with Marc Dollinger).

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CHAPTER I
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CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER IV
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Wasting of ProvisionsKinnikinickHavana SegarsIndian AmusementsCamp
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CHAPTER VI
40
CHAPTER VII
46
CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER XI
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CHAPTER XXVI
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CHAPTER XXVII
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CHAPTER XXIX
185
CHAPTER XXX
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CHAPTER XXXI
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CHAPTER XXXII
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CHAPTER XXXIII
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CHAPTER XXXVI
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CHAPTER XIII
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CHAPTER XV
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CHAPTER XVI
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CHAPTER XVIII
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CHAPTER XIX
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CHAPTER XXI
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CHAPTER XXII
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CHAPTER XXIII
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CHAPTER XXIV
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CHAPTER XXXVII
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SPIRITUAL WIFE SYSTEM
250
CELESTIAL MARRIAGE
12
INDIAN HOSTILITIES AND TREACHERY
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USE AND ABUSE OF BLESSINGS
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A Discourse delivered by Parley P Pratt in the Tabernacle Great Salt Lake City 79
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LEGITIMACY AND ILLEGITIMACY
104
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Ava F. Kahn is a visiting scholar at the California Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849?1880; Jewish Life in the American West: Perspectives on Migration, Settlement, and Community; and California Jews (coedited with Marc Dollinger).

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