A new map of Texas, Oregon, and California with the regions adjoining

Cover title (embossed in yellow on publisher's blue leather binding): Texas, Oregon and California
Issued folded in cover with accompanying text: Accompaniment to Mitchell's New map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with the regions adjoining.
Pages 42-43 include description of the map and its sources.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1845 by H.N. Burroughs in the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania."
Includes descriptive text and table: Emigrant route from Missouri to Oregon.
"The emigrant route to Oregon, the route of Fremont's explorations, the caravan route from Missouri to Santa Fe and the Great Spanish Trail from California to Santa Fe are all shown on the map."
Scale [ca. 1:6,652,800]
Relief shown by hachures.
Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
Former owner's inscription inside front cover: Geo. Clymer Jr. Washington, Feby. 9th, 1846
Forms part of the Wright Howes Map Collection.

Original Collection:

Wright Howes Map Collection (Newberry Library)

Referenced In:

Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, v. 3, p. 34-35 and 253-254, no. 520, Wheat, C.I. Maps of the California gold region, p. 18, no. 29, Graff coll. 2841

Citation

Mitchell, Samuel Augustus, "A New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California with the Regions Adjoining" (Philadelphia : S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846). Map3C G4050 1846 .M5

Newberry Call Number:

map3C G4050 1846 .M5

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Geographic Area Covered:

United States, West

Original Resource:

Digital reproduction of: 1 map : hand col. ; 57 x 53 cm., folded in cover 14 x 9 cm. + 1 guide (46 p. ; 14 cm.)

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Newberry Library

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