From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition

by S.W. Woodhouse

As Capt. Lorenzo Sitgreaves set out in 1851 to explore the southern portion of the Four Corners region (won in the recent war with Mexico), his party included Dr. Samuel Woodhouse, a thirty-year-old physician and naturalist who kept a journal of their travels from New York to California. Woodhouse recorded three weeks in San Antonio, made daily entries across the Trans-Pecos, and, after a hiatus in Santa Fe, resumed his journal on the march to Zu...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896725979
• ISBN13: 9780896725973
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"