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Skeleton map of the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi River : exhibiting the relations existing between lines and areas of explorations & surveys conducted under the auspices of the War Dept., giving the area of the public domain lying west of the 100th meridian of longitude, with an index illustration of a series of atlas maps proposed to be constructed on a scale of 1 inch to 8 mi
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- Title in upper left: Explorations and surveys west of the one-hundredth meridian
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- English
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- Washington, D.C. : U.S. Engineer Office, [1874]
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- 1 map : color ; 41 x 52 cm
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- ocm42916669
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Scale 1:6,000,000(W 125°--W 90°/N 50°--N 30°).
- Shows dated routes of survey and exploration, forts, telegraph lines, and areas of Wheeler's survey expeditions.
- "Prepared to accompany the Preliminary & progress report concerning the Expedition of 1872 & 1873."
- Data table gives area in square miles of Wheeler's survey expeditions of 1869, 1871, and 1872; areas encompassed by the Survey of the 40th parallel; etc.
- House exec. doc. 1, pt. 2, 43rd Congress, 1st sess.
- Also available on the Internet through the David Rumsey Map Collection.