Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives
Joseph Christmas Ives (1828–1868), soldier, botanist, explorer of the Colorado River in 1858.
Ives was born in New York City in 1828 and was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1852. As a Lieutenant
from 1853 to 1854 he was appointed by the U.S. Army to the Topographical Engineers as assistant to
Lt. A.W. Whipple
in the
Pacific Railroad survey along the 35th parallel.
From 1857 to 1858 Ives commanded an expedition to explore up the
Colorado River
from its mouth.
Report upon the Colorado river of the West
Also see:
Beale Expedition
When, under orders from the Secretary of War, Lt. Joseph C. Ives, earlier with the Whipple Expedition, arrived at the mouth of the Colorado River with the ...
Chemehuevi, Mohave & Cahuilla Indians
Whipple and Ives, for the sake of some new and curious acquaintance-for which we shall be indebted to those intelligent and experienced path-finders-with ...
Indians of the Mojave Desert
Tribes of the 35th Parallel. Let us accompany Messrs. Whipple and Ives, for the sake of some new and curious acquaintance-for which we shall be . ...
Whipple Expedition
The Whipple Expedition, a large scientific expedition led by Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple, Brevet Lt. J. C. Ives, and 2nd Lt. D. S. Stanley, which was the next ...
Military & Pioneer Period - Mohave Indians
The Whipple Expedition, a large scientific expedition led by Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple, Brevet Lt. J. C. Ives, and 2nd Lt. D. S. Stanley, which was the next ...
Amiel Whipple
In 1858 Lieutenant Ives named a mountain range along the west bank of the Colorado River for Amiel W. Whipple. These mountains lie east to west in what is ...
Lake Mead
In 1855, Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives traveled the lower Colorado River in search of ... Following Ives, John Wesley Powell continued exploration of the upper ...
History of Hoover Dam
River explorers and mappers first came in January, 1858, under the leadership of Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives, who came up the Colorado by steamboat from the ...
Hoover Dam Chronology
Lt. J. C. Ives navigates the Colorado River and, with his steamboat The Explorer , reaches the end of Black Canyon. 1869. Major John Wesley Powell makes the ...
