Whitney's Railroad to the Pacific 1850
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Author: [Whitney, Asa]
Title: Whitney's Railroad to the Pacific.
Place Published: [Washington, D.C.]
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Date Published: 1850
Description:
Author: [Whitney, Asa]
Title: Whitney's Railroad to the Pacific.
Place Published: [Washington, D.C.]
Publisher:
Date Published: 1850
Description:
117 pp. With 2 folding maps. 22.5x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾"), saddle-stitched pages. First Edition.
Whitney's campaign for a transcontinental railroad was influential and strongly supported in this publication, but sectional controversy over slavery postponed it. One large map shows the world, the other, North America, with three possible lines of railroads across the continent.
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Wrappers lost; foxing throughout, some creasing to maps, text clean throughout, binding holding; good, deserving of rebinding.
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Whitney's Railroad to the Pacific 1850
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