Solomon Nunes Carvalho INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN THE FAR WEST COLONEL FREMONTS LAST EXPEDITION ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 1860 Decorative Binding Utah Mormonism Spiritual Wife System Sierra Nevada Native American Indians Daguerreotype Outfit Piede Dialect
Title: Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; With Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains: Including Three Months' Residence in Utah, and a Perilous Trip Across the Great American Desert to the Pacific
Author: Solomon Nunes Carvalho - Solomon Nunes Carvalho was an American-born Jewish painter, photographer, author and inventor. He may be best known as an explorer who traveled through the territory of Kansas, Colorado and Utah with John C. Frémont on his fifth expedition. Many famous images of the Old West are based on images he made, although many others have been lost or confused with those taken by Mathew Brady and other contemporaries.
Publisher: Derby & Jackson
City: New York
Year: 1860
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 250, 130 pages, plus advertisements
Width: 5.25" Height: 7.5"
Book Details: This handsome antique volume is bound in elaborately blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine.

In 1853, Colonel John C. Frémont, who had made several trips exploring the west and had unsuccessfully tried to make daguerrotypes to document his group's journeys, invited Carvalho to accompany him as he attempted to prove that a “central route” near the thirty-eighth parallel would be the best path for a planned transcontinental railroad. Accepting the challenge, Carvalho traveled from New York to St. Louis by rail, and then took a steamboat up the Missouri River to Westport in Kansas Territory. During the trip, despite the frigid weather which made chemical combinations difficult, Carvalho made near daily portraits of expedition members, the Native Americans they met, and the landscape. Solomon Carvalho would nearly die on that trip of scurvy, starvation and frostbite, and he and his friend Herman Egloffstein would be nursed back to health by kindly Mormons in Parowan, Utah and Salt Lake City, as Frémont and several other surviving members would continue to California. Carvalho later recovered enough to reach Los Angeles, California and its small Jewish community, helping them organize the Hebrew Benevolent Society. His daguerrotypes would later be given to Mathew Brady, where they became mixed with others. He published his diary of the five month journey, “Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition”, possibly before Frémont's presidential campaign or to fulfill a promise made to Mormon leaders during his recuperation. Carvalho is considered a pioneer in travel photos.
Condition / Notes: This beautifully bound volume displays some typical indications of age and wear including shelfwear and rubbing. There is some loss to the upper and lower extremities of the spine.The front hinge is partially detached, and the text block slightly cracked. The binding is otherwise sound with clear and legible text through mild age toning.

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