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[144] of the war resulted, that of Colonel A. W. Doniphan. It was accurately recorded by John T. Hughes in Doniphan's expedition; containing an account of the conquest of New Mexico, General Kearny's overland expedition to California, Doniphan's campaign against the Navajos, his unparalleled March upon Chihuahua and Durango and the operations of general price at Santa Fe, with a sketch of the life of Colonel Doniphan (1847). Hughes wrote another book now very hard to obtain, California, its history, population, climate, soil, productions, and Harbours, and an account of the Revolution in California and the conquest of the country by the United States, 1846–;47 (1848). William E. Connelley has reprinted the Hughes Doniphan with Hughes's diary and other related matter in Doniphan's expedition (1907). With the advance guard of the Army of the West went Major William H. Emory, and his Notes of a military reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego, California, 1846–;47 (1848) is an important contribution to the documents on this famous march. The Rev. Walter Colton was in California before the conquest and he wrote an exceedingly valuable book, Three years in California, 1846–;49 (1850), as well as another, Deck and Port, or incidents of a cruise in the United States Frigate Congress, etc. (1850). Still another volume of this period is Notes on a voyage to California together with scenes in Eldorado in 1849 (1878) by S. C. Upham. The name Eldorado enters so commonly into the literature of the Far West that we may at this point note the volume The Gilded man (1893), by A. F. Bandelier, which describes and explains the term and its origin. In a certain ceremonial in Peru a man was covered from head to foot with gold dust and this gave rise to the expression as meaning fabulous wealth. With the prospect of closer contact with the Orient by way of the Occident, relations with some of the far off Eastern countries began to be more intimately considered. Caleb Cushing as Commissioner of the United States went to China in 1843 and in 1845 negotiated the first treaty between the United States and China. Missionaries, too, were at their task. Volumes of the Chinese repository edited by Dr. Bridgman were publishing at Canton, and from these volumes, and his own personal observation and study of native authorities for twelve years,
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