Map without title showing the railroad route to Santa Fe and San Diego; the central route through South Pass and on to San Francisco and "Puget's Sound," and connecting railroads east of the Mississippi.
Whitney, Asa, 1797-1872.
Miller & Co.
cartographic
N[ew] Y[ork] Miller's Lith.
[1849]
eng
Outline map of North America showing proposed railroad routes within the present limits of the United States. This is one of the earliest promotional maps for a transcontinental railroad to come before the United States Congress and claimed by the author to have been "conceived as early as 1830."
Scale ca. 1:15,500,000.
Title from C. I. Wheat's Mapping the transmississippi west.
Relief shown by hachures.
At top of map: No. 2.
From the author's A project for a railroad to the Pacific.
LC Railroad maps,
Includes distance chart showing distances via Northern Route, Southern Route, Galveston Route, and St. Louis Route.
Railroads--United States--Maps.
United States.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701p.rr000140