COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Horn, Hosea B.
Date:
1852
Short Title:
Title: Horn's Overland Guide, From The U.S. Indian Sub-Agency, Council Bluffs, On The Missouri River, To The City Of Sacramento, In California
Publisher:
J. H. Colton
Publisher Location:
New York
Type:
Title Page
Obj Height cm:
16
Obj Width cm:
10
Full Title:
(Title page to) Horn's Overland Guide, From The U.S. Indian Sub-Agency, Council Bluffs, On The Missouri River, To The City Of Sacramento, In California
List No:
16171.002
Series No:
2
Publication Author:
Horn, Hosea B.
Pub Date:
1852
Pub Title:
Horn's Overland Guide, From The U.S. Indian Sub-Agency, Council Bluffs, On The Missouri River, To The City Of Sacramento, In California
Pub Reference:
CAMP 214. COWAN, p.292. GRAFF 1952. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 221. HOWES H641, "b." KURUTZ 343b. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 105. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 751. SABIN 33021. STREETER SALE 3170. HOWELL 50:529. EBERSTADT 115:1050. MINTZ 238. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 124.
Pub Note:
"A handsome copy of this important guide for overland travel to California. This is the issue with the "opinions of the press" on page 5, and the longer main text. Hosea B. Horn was an Iowa lawyer, author, printer, and newspaperman who made the overland trip to California in 1850 and used his experience to produce this detailed guide - the most popular and best known of its day. The text consists of a lengthy list of "Notable Places, Objects and Remarks," and describes the trail in a detailed, step-by-step fashion, with the distance between places, and cumulative tally of the total distance covered from Council Bluffs to Sacramento (2,011 miles total). The five-page "appendix" includes other mileage charts, followed by fifteen pages of "Business Advertisements." The map was executed by Colton and shows the entire central route, with all the cut-offs, marked in red. "Especial importance attaches to this work from the fact that it was one of the few guides which actually measured and described much of the route traversed. Horn had personally been over all the 'cut-offs' and he prepared what is possibly the most exact account of the 'Overland Trail' which has come down to us" - Eberstadt. The notes in the Streeter sale catalogue agreed with this assessment, calling this work: "One of the best of the guides, as it is one of the few where the distances were closely measured." (Reese, 2024)
Pub List No:
16171.000
Pub Type:
Guide Book
Pub Maps:
1
Pub Height cm:
16
Pub Width cm:
10
Image No:
16171002.jp2
Authors:
Horn, Hosea B.
