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Author Preuss, Charles, 1803-1854.

Title Topographical map of the road from Missouri to Oregon [map] : commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri river and ending at the mouth of the Wallah-Wallah in the Columbia : in VII sections / from the field notes and journal of Capt. J.C. Fremont and from sketches and notes made on the ground by his assistant Charles Preuss ; compiled by Charles Preuss 1846 by order of the Senate of the United States.

Imprint Denver (Colo.) : N. Mumey, 1952.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Bartolini  912.78 P928t 1952    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 9 leaves : maps, port. ; 30+ cm.
Note Relief shown by hachures.
Includes meteorological observations, information about local Indian tribes and availability of game, pasture and fuel, and excerpts from Fremont's journals.
Prefaced by a biographical sketch of Preuss by the publisher and a portrait of him courtesy of the Library of the State Historical Society of Colorado.
Edition of 150 copies, signed by the publisher.
Subject Oregon National Historic Trail -- Maps.
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
West (U.S.) -- Maps.
Genre/Form Maps -- Oregon Trail -- 1846.
Maps -- West (U.S.) -- 1846.
Added Author Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890.
Mumey, Nolie, 1891-1984.
United States. Congress. Senate.
Cover Title Maps of 1846

 
    
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