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Map Of North America From The Latest Authorities Showing the Proposed Railroad Routes from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. J.H. Colton & Co. New York, 1854, for J. Disturnell. Entered ... 1849, by J.H. Colton ... New York. | Map Of North America From The Latest Authorities Showing the Proposed Railroad Routes from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. J.H. Colton & Co. New York, 1854, for J. Disturnell. Entered ... 1849, by J.H. Colton ... New York. | Removed from the United States Register by John Disturnell for 1854 (Wheat 801 refers to this as the "Congressional Directory, 1st Session, 33rd Congress"). Wheat missed the fact that this map is taken from the same base map as Colton's 1849 "Map of the United States, The British Provinces...Showing The routes of The U.S. Mail Steam Packets to California..." It has the same inset view of Pyramid Lake, but the inset map of the Gold Regions is omitted as well as the inset of South America. A table is added in the upper right of "Geographical Statistics." And this later map extends northward about 8 inches further than the 1849 map, to include all of Alaska and Canada. Several railroad routes to the west coast are shown, and there is a mysterious circle about six inches in diameter (about 1400 miles in scale) around Chicago, with no explanation given for it. Nebraska is shown in reduced size, but no Kansas. There are many updates to the map in the West, compared to the 1849. Disturnell published the U.S. Directories during the 1840's, 50's, 60's, and 70's, and most of them had one or another of Colton's North America maps. See also our somewhat different 1852 issue (#4715). Full and outline color.
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