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

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 map Maps. nyu 1849 monographic N[ew] Y[ork] Miller's Lith. [1849] eng map 38 x 46 cm. 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." 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. Includes distance chart showing distances via Northern Route, Southern Route, Galveston Route, and St. Louis Route. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Scale ca. 1:15,500,000. Railroads United States Maps United States G3701.P3 1849 .W5 Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701p.rr000140 LC Railroad maps, 14 gm 71000953 hdl:loc.gmd/g3701p.rr000140 DLC 710617 20250607182837.6 5399957 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)