Contents -- Preface -- The Severed Bear's Head - Franconia, Bavaria, and Prussia, 1824-1848 -- Egloffstein and Zwanziger, Surveyors - St. Louis, 1849-1853 -- Solomon Carvalho's Excellent Adventure - With Frémont over the Rockies -- Great Salt Lake City Idyll -- Views of Mount Shasta - To California with Beckwith, 1854 -- A New Style of Topographical Drawing - Washington, DC, and the Pacific Railroad Reports -- The Thoughts of God - Up the Colorado with Ives, 1857-1858 -- The Last Plates - Farewell to the West, 1861-1885 -- Abbreviations in the Notes and Bibliography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.