Up the Winds and Over the Tetons: Journal Entries and Images from the 1860 Raynolds Expedition

by William F. Raynolds, Marlene Deahl Merrill (Editor), Merrill D. Daniel (Editor)

Overview

In the late 1850s many of the most striking places in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana had not yet been surveyed by any government expedition. This book brings to life the expedition that first explored these regions. As the last major government survey of the American West before the Civil War, the Raynolds Expedition began in 1859. This highly readable daily journal of Captain William F. Raynolds, previously unpublished, covers the most challenging period of that expedition, from May 7 to July 4, 1860. It describes what the Raynolds party did and saw while traveling from its winter quarters near today’s Glenrock, Wyoming, up to the head of the Wind River, through Jackson Hole, and on to the Three Forks of the Missouri in southwestern Montana. The party included legendary mountain man Jim Bridger, geologist Ferdinand Hayden, and artists Anton Schönborn and James Hutton, among the first to depict the Teton Range.

Historians, travelers, and outdoor enthusiasts will welcome this important addition to the literature of western exploration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826350992
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	06/15/2012
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

MarleneDeahlMerrillisanaffiliatescholaratOberlinCollegeandtheeditoroftwobooksonthe1871YellowstoneExpedition.

Daniel D. Merrill (1932-2016) was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Oberlin College.
Marlene Deahl Merrill is an affiliate scholar at Oberlin College and the editor of two books on the 1871 Yellowstone Expedition.

Table of Contents

Illustrations viii

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Editing Methods xiv

Introduction 1

The Raynolds Expedition Party 21

Raynolds' Journal Narrative, May 7-July 4, 1860 23

Epilogue 73

Appendix 1 Raynolds' Account of His Activities on May 31, 1860, as It Appears in His Published Report 83

Appendix 2 Yellow Stone Expedition: Preliminary Report of Captain W. F. Raynolds, Topographical Engineers, October 5, 1860 87

Notes 93

A Note on the Images and Map 109

Bibliography 111

Index 115