Cross. Report of the Mounted Riflemen [1850 Oregon Trail Expedition]

Cross, Osborne. A Report, in the Form of a Journal, to the Quartermaster General, of the March of the Regiment of Mounted Rifleman to Oregon; contained in Senate Executive Document No. 1.; Message from The President of the United States, to The Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-first Congress. December 2, 1850. Part II. Washington : Printed for the Senate, 1850. [7665] Newly rebound in quarter calf with dark green cloth boards, black leather spine title label "March of the Mounted Riflemen," spine panels in blind, scroll tooling at junction of leather/cloth, 6 x 9 inches. New white end papers. 490 pp. plus 36 lithograph plates, 1 folding woodcut plan, & 4 folding charts. Foxing present in many places. Very good. Hardcover. This journal is an account of the first United States military expedition to travel the entire length of the Oregon Trail, from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver, May to October, 1849. "This report is a mine of inf