{"product_id":"incidents-of-travel-and-adventure-in-the-far-west-with-colonel-fremonts-last-expedition-across-the-rocky-mountains-including-three-months-residenc-paperback","title":"Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West: With Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains: Including Three Months' Residenc - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSolomon Nunes Carvalho\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAva F. Kahn\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Fr駑ont'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFr駑ont'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarvalho 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Bison Books edition restores the discourses on Mormon doctrine omitted from previous twentieth-century editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAva F. Kahn is a visiting scholar at the California Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley. Her books include \u003ci\u003eJewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849-1880\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJewish Life in the American West: Perspectives on Migration, Settlement, and Community\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Jews\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Marc Dollinger).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 7.98 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42691724836927,"sku":"9780803264441","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b9f3780b83119d5cbeb0244ee6593c70.webp?v=1764993015","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/incidents-of-travel-and-adventure-in-the-far-west-with-colonel-fremonts-last-expedition-across-the-rocky-mountains-including-three-months-residenc-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}