Untitled U. S. ~Catalog 51~ exploration routes

exploration routes

Is exacting in showing buildings and terrain of the time

Condition is very good on this sheet which isn't common

showing its configuration and the drainage as it was

and even sketches the layout of "Eden Park"

Untitled U. S. ~Catalog 51~ exploration routesUntitled U. S> The idea of a Pacific railroad had been simmering in the U. S. since the 1830's and it caught the imagination Asa Whitney early on. Whitney was one of the first to propose a transcontinental railroad to the government, and this map shows his proposed routes to To California and Oregon Territory. This is his map and report which had rail starting points at towns like Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, and Memphis Tennessee, but also had lines