Letter from the Secretary of War upon the Yellowstone

Heading: (Yellowstone Expedition)
Author: Doane, Lieutenant Gustavus C[heney]
Title: Letter from the Secretary of War Communicating The Report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane upon the so-called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Government Printing Office
Date Published: [1871]
Description:

40 pp. Disbound, string-tied.

The Washburn Expedition of 1870 explored the region of northwestern Wyoming that two years later became Yellowstone National Park. Led by Henry Washburn and Nathaniel P. Langford, and with a U.S. Army escort headed by Lt. Gustavus C. Doane, the expedition followed the general course of the Cook-Folsom-Peterson Expedition made the previous year. Scarce.
Condition Report: Some soiling to first and pages, 1" strip excised from bottom margin of first page with no loss to text, a few institutional markings, light vertical crease throughout; about very good.