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GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Map of the United States and Territories, showing the extent of Public Surveys and other details. Large hand-colored lithographed 2-sheet map joined on linen, not dissected but comprising the equivalent of 40 sections, 730x1430 mm overall; folds into the original 8vo format gilt-decorated morocco case. Washington, 15 October 1868
Wheat 1168 lists a an edition printed the previous year (15 October 1867) stating: "Flags mark the progress of the three transcontinental railroads. On the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, the flags fly at Ft. Ellsworth, an unnamed point, Ft. Hayes, 280 miles and Pond Creek Station, 305 miles." On this map, published one year later, additional flags indicate the completion of the railroad - including showing the place where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific met in Utah - "Promontory Summit" - "140 miles east of Humboldt Wells". An unusual feature of this map is a tiny strip of Dakota Territory still in place between Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, separated by hundreds of miles from Dakota Territory proper. See footnote 26 at page 215 in Wheat's TMW, Volume 5, Part I, for a copy of the 1867 edition with manuscript additions (which served as the precursor for the 1868 edition presented here). Not in Rumsey or Wheat.
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