View of Ordinary Lateral Ravines on Grand River From Camp Septbr 3

This tinted lithograph of “View of Ordinary Lateral Ravines on Grand River From Camp, September 3" was produced by Sarony, Major & Knapp (1857--1867), New York, after a sketch by expedition artist R. H. Kern (1821-1853). It was printed as a plate in Volume II following page 50, in the "Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad, by Captain J. W. Gunnison (1812-1853), Topographical Engineers, Near the 38th and 39th Parallels of North Latitude, from the Mouth of the Kansas River, Missouri to the Sevier Lake in the Great Basin" by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith (1818-1881), Third Artillery.

The volume was printed as part of the "Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean" in 1855 by A. P. O. Nicholson (1808-1876) of Washington, D.C.

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