| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2 | The History Cooperative

*Soldier-Artist of the Great Reconnaissance: John C. Tidball and the 35th Parallel Pacific Railroad Survey*. By Eugene C. Tidball. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xvi + 226 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
Only in fairly recent years have we had sufficient detail on one of the five pre-Civil War explorations for a Pacific Railroad route. Very much in the running in antebellum days was a route in the Southwest along the 35th Parallel. Why? Because the secretary of war who ordered the surveys was the South's Jefferson Davis.	1
The story of the 35th Parallel expedition of 110 men and 240 mules, led by Lt. Amiel Whipple, was told shortly after its end by one of its artists, Balduin Möllhausen. But there followed only silence until 1941, when Grant Foreman edited Whipple's journal as A Pathfinder in the West. By 1988, matters began to pick up speed with Mary Gordon's journal of expedition member John P. Sherburne—Through Indian Country to California (Stanford, 1988). It was followed by Eugene C. Tidball's biography of his artist-ancestor, who marched with Whipple, Lt. John K. Tidball. The book was No Disgrace to My Country (Kent, OH, 2002).	. . .

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