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Hirschfelder, Arlene B.

Photo Odyssey: Solomon Carvalho's Remarkable Western Adventure, 1853-54

(3) YA Carvalho, an Orthodox Jew from Baltimore with no wilderness experience, accompanied John Frémont as daguerreotype photographer on his expedition to find a railroad route over the Rockies to the Pacific. Archival drawings and photos illustrate this exciting account, based largely on Carvalho's diaries and letters, of a young man's survival of a mountain winter. Bib., ind.

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