1856 Exploration Reports Transcontinental Railroad Whipple Voyage Indians Cactus

In 1853, Amiel Weeks Whipple led an exploration for the first transcontinental railroad route to the Pacific Ocean. This event was recorded and published in Whipple’s “Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route,” in which Whipple and J.C. Ives provide formal botanical descriptions on new species of plants such as the cactus. This book is one of the most important and massive collections of exploration reports ever published about the United States west of the Mississippi River! Howes refers to this book as “the best cartographical work on the West up to its time.”

This volume is divided into six parts containing topographical features of the American west, interaction with Indian tribes, and descriptions of plants and animals.

Item number: #1801

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WHIPPLE, Amiel Weeks

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 1853-4, according to acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. Volume III

Washington, [D.C.] : War Departnmet, Washington, [D.C.] : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer. [1856] First edition.

Details:
•Collation: Complete with all 36, [X], [VII], 136, 77, 127, 175 pages
oFilled with illustrations throughout including:
♣Charts/Graphs
♣Maps
♣Full-page color plates
•References: Howes P 3; Wagner-Camp 263; Field 1647
•Language: English
•Binding: Leather; tight & secure
•Size: ~11.75in X 9.25in (30cm x 24cm)

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