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About the author: Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus (1810 – 1889) was German-born American MD, explorer and botanist. He is best known for his printed recollections from travels to Northern Mexico and today's state of New Mexico. He ventured to St. Louis in 1839. There he found a long-sought opportunity. Accompanying one of the expeditions of Rocky Mountain Fur Company he embarked on a journey to the west. With the hardy pioneers he traveled far into the North-West, towards the source of Green River in the Wind River Mountains. When the trappers turned back home Wislizenus joined a band of Flathead and Nez Perce Indians with whom he crossed the Rocky Mountains. With no guide willing to lead him through the Sierra Nevada he ventured back along the banks of Arkansas River to the border of Missouri. The voyage proved to be purely recreational due to the inability of finding facilities and lack of instruments. Upon returning to St. Louis in 1840 he resumed his practice and soon became involved in various citizen activities of a growing city and country. This pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.
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Friedrich A. Wislizenus was born on May 21, 1810, at Königsee, Germany. Both his father, a pastor in the evangelical state church, and his mother, whose maiden name was Hoffmann, died during an epidemic following the retreat of Napoleon's army from Moscow. The three children of the union were adopted by the mother's brother and his wife, who reared them with devoted care.
Adolph attended the gymnasium of Rudolstadt, the capital, later studying the natural sciences at the University of Jena and at Göttingen and Tübingen. He became deeply stirred by the political unrest of the time, and after taking part in an abortive uprising of students at Frankfurtam-Main, April 3, 1833, he fled to Switzerland. At Zürich he continued his studies, later spending some time in the Paris hospitals.
In 1835 he arrived in New York, and in the following year he began practice as a country physician at Mascoutah, St. Clair County, Ill. A yearning to see the Far West prompted him, in April 1839, to ascend the Missouri to Westport, where he joined a fur-trading party for the mountains. From the trappers' rendezvous on Green River he went on to Fort Hall, in the present Idaho, intending to reach the Pacific Coast. He altered his course, however, and with a few companions returned by way of Brown's Hole, the Laramie plains, the Arkansas River, and the Santa Fé Trail to St. Louis. In the following year he published in that city Ein Ausflug nach den Felsen-Gebirgen im Jahre 1839, afterwards translated by his son and issued as A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1839 (1912). For the six years following his return he practised medicine in St. Louis in partnership with Dr. George Engelmann. In the spring of 1846, resolved on another adventure, he provided himself with a scientific outfit and joined the trading caravan of Albert Speyer for Santa Fé and Chihuahua. The caravan, supposed to be carrying arms for the Mexican government, was pursued by a detachment of Stephen Watts Kearny's army, but was not overtaken. From Santa Fé it moved on southward, Wislizenus closely observing the fauna, flora, and geology of the region, and collecting specimens. At Chihuahua he had a perilous experience with an anti-American mob, and with some companions was sent under guard into the mountains. The arrival of Alexander W. Doniphan's regiment in March 1847 restored the prisoners to freedom, and Wislizenus, joining the command as a surgeon, returned by way of the Rio Grande, the Gulf, and the Mississippi to his home. His account of the journey was submitted to the Senate by Thomas H. Benton, and appeared in 1848 as Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico. The earlier narrative, despite some amusing slips in the use of proper names and in references to the various Indian bands encountered, remains a classic of the late trapper period; and the later one, which was praised by Alexander von Humboldt, gives for most of the region traversed the earliest record of scientific observation. A German translation of the later narrative was published in 1850 in Brunswick. Wislizenus did heroic duty throughout the cholera epidemic of 1848 - 1849 in St. Louis. In 1850 he sailed for Europe, and at Constantinople. On again reaching the United States, he voyaged to California to choose a home. Dissatisfied, he returned and settled in St. Louis in 1852. Later he became deeply interested in atmospheric electricity and recorded many observations of his experiments. Failing eyesight resulted, some years before his death, in total blindness. He died on September 23, 1889, at his home, in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Friedrich A. Wislizenus was one of the founders of the Missouri Historical Society and also of the Academy of Science of St. Louis.
On July 23, 1850, Frederick Adolph Wislizenus married Lucy Crane, sister of the wife of George P. Marsh, then the American minister to Turkey. They had several children.
