Dr. George M. Ellis made a donation of rare, historical titles to Special Collections and University Archives, including the 1807 first edition of the first published journal by a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Patrick Gass
F592.5 .G2 1807; the first published account of the work (Jose Salazar Ylarregui, 1850) of the Joint Boundary Commission of the United States and Mexico in surveying and marking the present boundary of the two countries under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
F786 .S16 1850; and James Ohio Pattie's
Personal Narrative of James Ohio Pattie, of Kentucky... F592 .P38 1833, which is the first published book account of an American overland trip to Alta California. Pattie's narrative is also the first book published by a participant in either the northern or the southwestern fur trade. Sylvester Pattie, James' father, who was one of the members of the expedition, died in 1828, while they were under arrest at the San Diego Presidio during that expedition and the image from the book is of his burial. Sylvester's grave was rediscovered during excavations at the Presidio lead by Dr. Paul Ezell in 1969.
Pictured above: Map from Datos de los Trabajos Astronomicos y Topografico.
