Map of Routes for a Pacific Railroad, Compiled to Accompany the Report of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Sec. of War 1855

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Old map of United States.

Outline sketch map of the United States west of the Mississippi River designed to show the relationship of the proposed railroad routes. First edition of the map appears in U.S. War Department, Report of the Secretary...Communicating the Several Pacific Railroad Explorations (Washington, 1855). [From published bibliography]

Created by Julius Bien, Jefferson Davis, Millard Fillmore, United States. War Department, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble) Warren in 1855.

• Relief shown by hachures.
• Hand colored.
• "This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other: the topography represents only those great divides which form summits on the profiles of the routes. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state..." (see RR 174 for completed large map)

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