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title	:	Great Surveys of the American West American Exploration and Travel Series
author	:	Bartlett, Richard A.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806116536
print isbn13	:	9780806116532
ebook isbn13	:	9780585145846
language	:	English
subject	West (U.S.)--Surveys, West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.
publication date	:	1962
lcc	:	F594.B28eb
ddc	:	557.8
subject	:	West (U.S.)--Surveys, West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.

Page iii Great Surveys of the American West by Richard A. Bartlett UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN

Page iv By Richard A. Bartlett Great Surveys of the American West (Norman, 1962) The Yellowstone National Park, by Hiram Martin Chittenden (editor) (Norman, 1964) Nature's Yellowstone (Albuquerque, 1974) The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier, 1776-1890 (New York, 1974) Freedom's Trail (with Clare Keller) (Boston, 1979) Rolling Rivers: An Encyclopedia of America's Rivers (editor) (New York, 1984) Yellowstone: A Wilderness Besieged (Tucson, 1985) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-16745 ISBN: 0-8061-1653-6 Great Surveys of the American West is Volume 38 in The American Exploration and Travel Series. Copyright 1962 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing CDivision of the University of Oklahoma. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Page v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Some twenty miles northwest of Boulder, Colorado, about halfway between the plains and the icy crags of the Front Range, lies Cooke Mountain. Years ago a couple of boys and a mongrel dog, exploring thereabouts, stumbled upon a bronze plaque cemented into a large boulder, commemorating the death there of a lost Captain Cooke. The boys conjectured while catching their breaths until the dog took out after a chipmunk, and then dog, chipmunk, and boys were on their way again. From the summit of Cooke Mountain they saw the jagged peaks spread northwestward to perhaps Mount Richtofen, southward to Mount Evans or even to Lieutenant Pike's "Blue Mountain." Nearly due west, looming mightiest of all, was Longs Peak. Eastward lay foothills and the great high plains of Colorado. There was Denver, far to the southeast; Boulder was hidden by intervening ridges; but Longmont was easily sighted, and other patches of civilization dotted the view. An occasional automobile windshield flashed in the sun. West was nature, wild and untamed; east was dull civilization. West was where the boys went on Saturdays. They explored the old mines and forced open more cabin doors than they should have. They knew the decaying mining camps of Magnolia, Wall

Page vi Street, Sugar Loaf, Gold Hill, Sunshine, Caribou, Nederland, Eldora, Hesse, Ward, and Jim Town. Sometimes they hitched rides with the hard-rock minersproud characters who preferred sifting old mine dumps to going on Relief in those dismal days of the 1930's. Or they trekked into the high country with classmates who lived "in the hills" and who could identify gold-bearing ore even though they had never read a book on geology. The boys really had fun. So perhaps acknowledgments should go all the way back to those days, for I was one of those boys, and my curiosity about the explorers and miners who first were in those hills blended naturally with my increasing absorption in American history. I owe a debt of gratitude posthumously to Colin B. Goodykoontz, my major professor at the University of Colorado, whose excellent guidance aided my original research into the Surveys. Aid was extended to me by Mrs. Opal Harber and Mrs. Alys Freeze of the Western History Room of the Denver Public Library, and by Mrs. Nan V. Carson, librarian of the State Historical Society of Colorado. In The National Archives I give special thanks to the aid of Herman Friis, chief archivist of the Technical Records Division, and to Charles Dewing, who serviced Interior Department records while I was there. Other archivists who offered special attention and showed unusual interest in my project were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Miss Josephine Cobb, and Miss Katherine Murphy. I received help from the capable men of the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress as well as from Milton Kaplan of the Division of Prints and Photographs. Terry Bender and Julian Barclay of the Bender Room, Stanford University Special Collections, gave me every possible aid during the weeks Survey. I had help concerning Clarence King from the Huntington Library and information on Wheeler and King from Hunting Library and information on Wheeler and King from the Bancroft Library. While there I also examined Francis Farquhar's collection on King and Gardner, which materially deepened my understanding of those men. (Mr. Farquhar was

Page vii then in Europe: I trust he will accept my belated gratitude.) For further information on Gardner and Hayden I am indebted to Mrs. Anne Gardiner Pier of Williamstown, Massachusetts, to Juliet Wolohan of the New York Public Library at Albany, to Margaret Butterfield, in charge of Special Collections at the University of Rochester, to Leonidas Dodson of the Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, and to John Saeger, reference librarian at Oberlin College. I am indebted to Aubrey L. Haines, park historian, Yellowstone Park, for pertinent information about that region, and to Bruce Woodard of Denver, Colorado, for aid in my research on the Diamond Hoax. Useful aid was extended to me at the Smithsonian Institution and by the curator of the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, D. C. Significant information about all the Surveys was culled from dozens of other sources, but space prevents more than a sincere thanks to those many informants. I owe a special debt of gratitude to the entire staff of the Robert Manning Strozier Library at the Florida State University, and especially to the director of libraries, N. Orwin Rush. His western background made his criticism of parts of the manuscript most helpful. The Florida State University Research Council, under the chairmanship of Dean Werner Baum and later of Dean John K. Folger, helped with funds, and from J. Paul Reynolds, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and from W. Tyree Jordan, chairman of the Department of History, I received encouragement. Roland W. Eves gave unstintingly of his time in the preparation of the maps.

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