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"Explorations and Surveys for the Railroad and Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean- 41st Parallel" by Capt. E.G. Beckwith

"Explorations and Surveys for the Railroad and Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean- 41st Parallel" by Capt. E.G. Beckwith

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Subject: Western United States

Creator: Capt. E.G. Beckwith

Date: 1855 (dated)

Color: Black & White

Size: 18. x20.8 inches

Source: U.S. Pacific Railroad Surveys

Quantity: 4 maps

A. Map. No. 1. From the Valley of Green River to the Great Salt Lake.... Extremely detailed map has very fine hachure to indicate mountainous elevations. The map extends from Brown's Hole east of today's Vernal to the Great Salt Lake and south to below Fillmore. The Emigrant Road heads south to California. Several "Proposed Railroad" lines are shown. One crosses the Green River near Black's Fork, continues past Fort Bridger (Wyoming) and on to the Weber River to Ogden City where it turns south. Another leaves the Wasatch Mountains via Timpanogas Canyon and a third heads west from the Oquirrh Mountains.

B. Map No. 2 From Great Salt Lake to the Humboldt Mountains.... Finely detailed map with delicate hachure to indicate mountainous elevations. Includes the region from the Great Salt Lake and across the flats to the Humboldt range. Several proposed railroad routes noted, including one earlier surveyed in 1854 through the To-a-no Mountains. Very good depiction of the Emigrant Road skirting north of the lake.

C. Map No. 3 From the Humboldt Mountains to the Mud Lakes.... This map is filled with topographical detail presented in fine hachure. It extends to include most of the Pyramid Lake, which is passed to the north by the proposed railroad route. An area to the northeast is noted as Unexplored.

D. Map No. 4 From the Valley of the Mud Lakes to the Pacific Ocean.... This map covers from Pyramid Lake to the Sacramento River in good detail, while the western portions are in skeletal form. The proposed railroad route is delineated plus the one to the south surveyed in 1854. Locates Mount Shasta, Red Bluffs, Marysville, Auburn and the Head of Navigation on the Sacramento River. In the Gold Region the map locates Nevada, Coloma, Placerville and Auburn.

 

Condition: B+ due to issued folding on thin paper with light toning along the folds, occasional foxing, and several small fold separations that ave been closed on verso with archival tape. There is a minor loss at a couple of the folding junctions


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