A new map of Texas, Oregon, and California with the regions adjoining /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
S. Augustus Mitchell,
1846.
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| Item Description: | Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Includes distances on the "emigrant route from Missouri to Oregon." Map shows state capitals, county towns, common towns, forts, and trading houses. Northern and southern "Fremont's route" paths in "Indian Territory" shown, center route following "Solomons Fork" river not included. Top border illustration inlcude 48 flowers. Canadian River labeled as South Canadian Fork. "The boundary route to Oregon as proposed by the United States is coloured blue and that proposed by Great Britain is coloured red." "The emigrant route to Oregon the route of Fremon's explorations, the Caravan route from Missouri to Santa Fe and the Great Spanish Trail from California to Sana Fe, are all shown on the Map." Accompanied by text "Accompaniment to Mitchell's new map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with regions adjoining." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1845 by H.N. Burroughs in the Clerks office of the District Court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania." Listed outside and below the decorative border on bottom edge of map. The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is archivally backed. The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy of the accompanying text is inscribed with a note from 1850. The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy of the accompanying text contains 1 piece of ephemera, a note from 1947. The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlans Collection. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 map : color ; 52 x 47 cm, on sheet 58 x 53 cm + 1 volume (46 pages ; 14 cm) |