Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50 by John S.Tomer; Michael J. Brodhead; S. W. WoodhouseReview by: Charlotte M. PorterJournal of the Early Republic, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 586-587Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the EarlyAmerican RepublicStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3124592 .
Accessed: 14/06/2014 08:30
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp
.JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].
.
University of Pennsylvania Press and Society for Historians of the Early American Republic are collaboratingwith JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the Early Republic.
http://www.jstor.org
This content downloaded from 195.78.109.54 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 08:30:56 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
The book is a veritable history of the Mexican War, beginning with its origins in Texas and concluding with the peace treaty finally ratified by both countries. Within a general chronological approach, the author has interspersed topical sections and chapters dealing with such subjects as raising regular and volunteer troops (112,000 men served in the war), transportation to the war zone, camp life, types of
guns and ammunition issued, soldiers' emotions during and after bat- tle, amusements and entertainments, army newspapers, ethnic and
religious controversies, desertion, misbehavior and military punish- ments (from simple admonitions to courts-martial that inflicted the death penalty), and reception of the soldiers when they returned home.
The book has an excellent chapter about health problems in the field during the war. Disease killed seven times as many soldiers as
enemy bullets; in fact, almost eleven thousand soldiers died, and sev- eral thousand others were discharged on account of it. Dysentery, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and yellow fever were principal killers, but even such illnesses as mumps and measles proved fatal to many. The diseases stemmed from polluted drinking water, contaminated
food, and poor camp sanitation. Such a high death rate was related to the state of medical knowledge at that time when the methods of dis- ease transmission were poorly understood. Treatments used by army surgeons (such as bloodletting and amputation without anesthesia) are discussed, along with mention of common drugs administered
(quinine sulfate, ipecacuanha, and calomel). The Army of Manifest Destiny fills a previously vacant niche in the
literature of America's first foreign war. By bringing together dispa- rate material and neatly tying it to eyewitness accounts and observa-
tions, the author has performed a welcome service for those interested in reading about the war. Furthermore, the book is well written, and readers will enjoy the many anecdotes used to illustrate the author's
points.
California State University, Hayuward Robert Ryal Miller
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50. Edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. The American Exploration and Travel Series. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 304. Illustrations. $29.95.)
Following the Creek Treaty of 1833, the United States left the north- ern and western boundaries of Creek lands in Indian Territory un-
surveyed. After Creek agitation, the Corps of Topographical
586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586 586
This content downloaded from 195.78.109.54 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 08:30:56 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
Engineers finally organized a survey in 1848. The first of two expedi- tions set out the next year under Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves; the sec- ond, led by Lieutenant Israel Carle Woodruff, left in 1850. This was a time of the cholera, and the expeditions followed its frightful course west.
The surgeon and naturalist for both parties was Samuel Washing- ton Woodhouse (1821-1904), assistant resident physician at the Phila- delphia Hospital. Friendship with young Spencer Fullerton Baird (later the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) and access to the Academy of Natural Sciences fostered his interests in natural history. After his return from Indian Territory, Woodhouse wrote his final report for the survey at the academy, and some of his specimen material is still there. He described birds and mammals also in the academy's Proceedings.
Woodhouse did not include technical information found in those publications in the two journals at hand edited by Tomer and Brod- head. These journals are simply daybooks. The entries are travel notes about the weather, dust, bad food, hard beds, sickness, scenery, and people encountered. They are fun to read but do not seem meant for outside eyes. Their value is their context, and here Tomer and Brodhead have worked quite hard for the reader. The long introduc- tion is an excellent summary of western exploring expeditions. The biography of Woodhouse gives a nice sense of the man. The journals follow with copious notes. My complaint is tired eyes. These page- notes are loaded like pack animals coming home from old Mexico, and their baggage is wonderful. Details abound about such things as "Dover's powder" (75), early vaccines among the Osage (153), and the Asbury Mission School (249). These valuable notes merit more space (and larger point size) as narrative. There is a book waiting to burst out. Perhaps Tomer and Broadhead will give us this; in any event, their present effort deserves a better map.
Florida Museum of Natural History, Charlotte M. Porter University of Florida
587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 587 BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS
This content downloaded from 195.78.109.54 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 08:30:56 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
