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Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of the Mississippi.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
N[ew] Y[ork] Miller's Lith. [1849]
SUMMARY
Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."
NOTES
Scale ca. 1:15,500,000.
Title from C. I. Wheat's Mapping the transmississippi west.
Relief shown by hachures.
At top of map: No. 2.
From the author's A project for a railroad to the Pacific.
Reference: LC Railroad maps, 14
Includes distance chart showing distances via Northern Route, Southern Route, Galveston Route, and St. Louis Route.
SUBJECTS
Railroads--United States--Maps.
United States.
RELATED NAMES
Miller & Co.
MEDIUM
map 38 x 46 cm.
CALL NUMBER
G3701.P3 1849 .W5 RR 14
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
DIGITAL ID
g3701p rr000140 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701p.rr000140
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