Item Detail
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9255
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U.S. War Department
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Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6]. . . .
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Washington
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A. O. P. Nicholson, printer [Beverly Tucker, printer]
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1855–1860
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1855 – 1860
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12v. in 13
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30cm
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plates (part col., part fold.) maps (part fold.)
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Vol. III, includes extracts from the [preliminary] report of Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, Corps of Topographical Engineers, upon the route near the thirty-fifth parallel, with an explanatory note by Captain A. A. Humphreys . . . References to the Mormons at San Bernardino and the Mormon road to Salt Lake, p. 113, 126–127, 129, 131. Vol. V, Report of Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, upon the routes in California to connect with the routes near the thirty-fifth and thirty-second parallels. References to the Mormon settlement at San Bernardino, p. 36–37, 80–84, 89; the Mormon road to Salt Lake, p. 64, 88; Mormon Island on the American River, p. 275
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Fales & Flake 63
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CU-B, UHi, UPB
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University of California, Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California; Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah