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13758
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English
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The Annotated 1846 Mitchell Map : Francis Moore Jr.'s Chronicle of the Mormon Exodus, the Mexican War, the Gold Rush, and Texas
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Nauvoo Journal
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Spring 1999
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11
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no.1
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49-100
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In 1846, S. Augustus Mitchell published a map that became very popular on the American frontier. BYU library has an original 1846 Mitchell map on which there are annotations and drawings that were published in Fremont's 1848 map. It makes the BYU Mitchell map the 'earliest known map still extant (1) placing Mormons in Utah and (2) placing gold in California!' After considerable research, the author concludes that this map was personally annotated by Francis Moore, Jr., a part-owner of a Houston, Texas, newspaper