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Map Of The Route Of The Southern Continental Rail Road
Palmer, William. J.
Map Of The Route Of The...
1869
3725.000
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Palmer, William. J.
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Map Of The Route Of The Southern Continental R.R. With Connections From Kansas City Mo. Ft. Smith Ark. And Shreveport La. Giving a general View of the Recent Surveys of the Kansas Pacific Railway Co, across the Continent Made in 1867 & 1868 under the direction of Gen. Wm. J. Palmer. On the routes of the 32nd and 35th Parallels. J.F Gedney Lith, Washington, D.C.
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3725.000
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Removed from Palmer's 1869 "Report of Surveys...for a route extending the Kansas Pacific Railway to the Pacific Ocean." Palmer used an exact copy Keeler's 1868 reduced scale edition of his National Map of the United States without credit in this first issue although Palmer's map adds much material along the line of the proposed southern continental route, especially in the Grand Canyon; in fact, this map is best known as the first map to use the name "Grand Canyon" of the Colorado. The Kansas Pacific had dreams of extending their line to California, as shown on this map, but it never happened. The map shows the routes of the Northern Pacific, the Union and Central Pacific, and the Southern Route. Ms color red and blue lines have been drawn on the various routes, adding an additional route from Centreville, Nevada, to Portland, Oregon (probably following Dodge's proposals - see his report). The main Kansas Pacific line has at least sixteen proposed branches! There is a later issue of this map that credits Keeler as a source (see our copy).
Map Of The Route Of The Southern Continental Rail Road
Palmer, William. J.
Map Of The Route Of The...
1869
4692.000
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Author
Palmer, William. J.
Full Title
Map Of The Route Of The Southern Continental R.R. With Connections From Kansas City Mo. Ft. Smith Ark. And Shreveport La. Giving a general View of the Recent Surveys of the Kansas Pacific Railway Co, across the Continent Made in 1867 & 1968 under the direction of Gen. Wm. J. Palmer. On the routes of the 32nd and 35th Parallels together with compilations from Keeler's Official Map showing the Central and Northern Routes to the Pacific, and the intermediate topography. J.F Gedney Lith, Washington, D.C.
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4692.000
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This is a somewhat later issue of the Palmer map that adds a Keeler credit in the title, above the title adds the date June 1869 next to three railroad symbol explanations, and adds a table of "Distances by the Kansas Pacific Railway to Denver & Cheyenne thence by the Pacific Railroad to San Francisco," and eliminates the "explanations" in the lower right.
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