This work by Randolph B. Marcy (1812 87), who retired from the US Army as a brigadier general in 1881, was first published in 1859. Reissued here is the 1863 edition, edited with notes by the British explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821 90). The subtitle of the original edition describes it as A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific, and it was hugely influential, as an official US Government publication, in encouraging the great overland migrations which took European settlers to the American...
This work by Randolph B. Marcy (1812 87), who retired from the US Army as a brigadier general in 1881, was first published in 1859. Reissued here is t...
