Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7 : from a point on Grande River (near which the road should cross,) to the Pimo Villages … & … the route of Gen. Kearny, down the Gila ...

Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego, 1848

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Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego, 1848

Geographic Area Covered:

New Mexico, Arizona

Geographic Coordinates:

(W 112°14ʹ--W 105°49ʹ/N 34°56ʹ--N 31°09ʹ)

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Full Title: Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7 : from a point on Grande River (near which the road should cross,) to the Pimo Villages … & … the route of Gen. Kearny, down the Gila ...

Creators:

Cooke, Philip St. George, 1809-1895

Publisher:

Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printers

Publisher Location:

Washington

Date Created:

1848

Contributors:

Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887, Kearny, Stephen Watts, 1794-1848, Leroux, Antoine (Joaquin Antoine), 1801?-1861, United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 1805-1886, United States. Congress. House, Wendell and Van Benthuysen (Firm)

Subjects:

Trails, Roads, Indians of North America, Cooke, Philip St. George, 1809-1895, Travel

Form/Genre:

Maps

Mode of Travel:

Trails, Roads

Context of Travel:

Military, Government publications

Time Period Covered:

1846-1848

Notes:

Complete title: Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7 : from a point on Grande River (near which the road should cross,) to the Pimo Villages where he fell into & followed the route of Gen. Kearny, down the Gila River
"Lithy. of P.S. Duval, Phila."
Details Cooke’s westward route from the Santa Fe region in New Mexico to the latter-day Phoenix region in Arizona.
Shows trails, Cooke's camp sites, watering holes, distances between points, villages, Indian sites, and route "believed by Mr. [Antoine] Leroux to be an open prairie & a good route, if water is found sufficient."
Includes "table of distances from Indepen[den]ce Mns. to Pacific."
Scale [ca. 1:1,250,000]
Relief shown by hachures and pictorially.

Contained In:

In: United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. Notes of a military reconnaissance : from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers. --Washington : Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printers, 1848 --[following p. [564]

Original Collection:

Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library)

Referenced In:

Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, v. 3, p. 6 and 249, no. 505

Citation

Cooke, Philip St. George, "Sketch of Part of the March & Wagon Road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7", in "Report of Lieut. Col. P. St. George Cooke of His March from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to San Diego, Upper California", in United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, Notes of a Military Reconnaissance : from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers, U.S. Serial Set 517, 30th Congress, 1st session, House executive doucment 41 (Washington : Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printers, 1848), following p. 564. Graff 1249

Newberry Call Number:

Graff 1249

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Geographic Area Covered:

New Mexico, Arizona

Original Resource:

Digital reproduction of: 1 map ; 30 x 58 cm., folded to 21 x 11 cm.

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Newberry Library

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