Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route.
Summary
Scale 1:3,000,000.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys.
Exhibition: Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Includes "Authorities."
LC copy annotated in color and black ink to show boundaries, place names, base lines, proposed Indian reservations and Indian land cessions.
Vault
AACR2
Tags
Date
01/01/1858
Contributors
Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble), 1830-1882.
Freyhold, Edward.
Bien, Julius, 1826-1909.
United States. War Department.
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain