In 1849, the Corps of Topographical Engineers commissioned
Lieutenant James H. Simpson to undertake the first survey of Navajo
country in present-day New Mexico. Accompanying Simpson was a
military force commanded by Colonel John M. Washington, sent to
negotiate peace with the Navajo. A keen observer, Simpson kept a
journal that provided valuable information on the party's
interactions with Indians and also about the land's features,
including important pueblo ruins at Chaco Canyon and Canyon de
Chelly. His careful observations informed subsequent military
expeditions, emigrant trains, the selection of Indian reservations,
and the charting of a transcontinental railroad.
Editor Frank McNitt discusses the expedition's lasting
importance to the development of the West, and his research is
enriched by illustrations and maps by artists Richard and Edward
Kern. Military historian Durwood Ball contributes a new
foreword.
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