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Title: Reconnaissance and survey of a railway route from Mississippi River near the 35th parallel north lat to Pacific Ocean : Map no. 1

Dates

• Coverage: 1854
• Coverage: 1854 to 1854

Publishers

• U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers (Washington, D.C)

Summary

Relief shown by hachures.; Shows various proposed railway route from Memphis to the Rio Grande; includes topography, hydrology, Indian villages, forts, mineral deposits, Llano Estacado, and numbered campsites.; Originally published in Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad expeditions (33rd Cong., 1st Sess., House Ex. Doc. No. 129, Serial 739).; Cited in Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540- 1861; volume 4, no. 873.

67 x 204 centimeters

Scale 1:900,000

General Map Collection

Subjects

• Railroads
• Surveying
• Maps

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-125.000,-106.500,37.000,32.000)

Provider

University of Minnesota

Rights

• Access rights: Public
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Citation

United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. Reconnaissance and survey of a railway route from Mississippi River near the 35th parallel north lat to Pacific Ocean : Map no. 1. U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers (Washington, D.C). https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll230:2343

Format

JPEG

Languages

• eng