Volume XI

Item — Box: A23

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Thirteen volumes of Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean from 1853-1861. These surveys documented a series of three explorations to the Pacifici Coast in search of the best route for a railroad. These surveys documented the plants, animals, and minerals of the land, as well as the various Native American groups they encountered. Some of the books also contain large maps, as well as illustrations.

Dates

Creation: 1853 - 1861

Extent

1 Volumes

1 Folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

One large map from the book of the United States has been rehoused and placed in a folder in box A23.

I. Letter of Captain A.A. Humphreys, Corps of Topographical Engineers, to the Secretary of War, Transmitting Lieut. Warren's Memoir.

II. Memoir of Lieut. G.K. Warren, Corps Topographical Engineers, upon the material used and methods employed in compiling the general map to illustrate the reports of surveys for railroad routes from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

III. Topographical Maps, profiles, and sketches, to illustrate the various reports of surveys contained in the preceding volumes of Pacific Railroad Reports.