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A fine & rare adornment of American History. Great for Genealogy. Impressive on any Home or Office Wall. 1854 Pacific Railroad Exploration & Survey Map from The Rocky Mountains to Puget Sound From the Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route made Under the Direction of Jefferson Davis, United States Secretary of War, Seven years prior his Election as President of the Confederate States of America. Original 1854. 154-yrs-old. Map is in Fair/Good (B-, B) condition. No marks or writing. Slight foxing along indentations. Folded as issued. Numerous closed separations along fold indentations previously repaired, and very fragile, with some top panels tetd, yet holding together . Left bottom corner torn. Some fraying to the edges. Not a Reproduction. Original Map of the 1854 Edition of The Explorations and Surveys for A Railroad Route From The Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, published by the United States War Department, 1856. An Exceptionally Rare & Handsome Map of the Rocky Mountains & Washington State with intricate detail. I sell only original maps: No copies or reproductions. View my other auctions for more antique maps. Map dimensions: 26" x 33.5" So Large It Makes Itself the Conversation of Any Room. Map Reads: "Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, War Department, Route Near The 47th & 49th Parallels. Map No. 3 From The Rocky Mountains to Puget Sound; from Explorations and Surveys made under the direction of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, by Isaac I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory. 1853-1854." Impressive on Any Home or Office Wall. History of the Map: During the 1850s, the United States Government sponsored an extensive series of expeditions designed to gather information on the vast new territories that had been acquired in western North America. The discovery of gold in California further stimulated westward traffic and heightened the need for a faster and more convenient way to bring the various parts of the country together. Under the provisions of the Army Appropriation Act of March 1853, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis was directed to survey possible routes to the Pacific. Five selected routes, roughly following specific parallels, were to be surveyed by parties under the supervision of the Topographical Corps. The most northerly survey, between the 47th and 49th parallels, was under the direction of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, governor of Washington Territory. This route closely approximated that proposed by Asa Whitney in 1849. The ill-fated party under Capt. John W. Gunnison was to explore the route along the 38th and 39th parallels, or the Cochetopa Pass route, advocated by Senator Benton. Because he failed to get John Charles Fremont appointed to head this expedition, Benton promoted two well-publicized, privately financed ventures in the same year, one headed by Edward F. Beale and the other by Fremont. After Gunnison's death at the hands of hostile Indians, Lt. Edward G. Beckwith continued the survey along the 41st parallel. Capt. Amiel W. Whipple, assistant astronomer of the Mexican Boundary Survey, and Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives surveyed the routes of the 35th parallel, westward to southern California. This was essentially the route traversed by Josiah Gregg in 1839 and later surveyed by Col. John J. Abert. When the results of the surveys were analyzed it was apparent that additional data on the roadbeds, grades, and passes were needed for the 32d parallel route to California. Lt. John G. Parke resurveyed along the Gila River between the Pima villages and the Rio Grande. Capt. John Pope mapped the eastern portion of the route from Dona Ana, N. Mex., to the Red River. Topographical surveys to locate passes through the Sierra Nevadas and the Coast Range in California and to determine the route that would connect California, Oregon, and Washington were made under the direction of Lt. Robert S. Williamson. In all, t were six ...
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