Journey Through the Rocky Mountains and the Humboldt Mountains to the Pacific Ocean

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English translation. Translated from the German and Edited by Thomas N. Bonner. 114pp. Drawings and maps by Joe Beeler. A very fine copy with dust jacket. Schiel served with the Gunnison Expedition sent out in 1853 to explore the possibilities of a railroad route to the Pacific. Fate allowed him to escape the massacre of Gunnison's command and he continued the remainder of the expedition under the command of Lieutenant Beckwith, wintering with the Mormons at Salt Lake City and reaching the coast the following year..