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KEELER, William J. National Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. Made by the authority of the Hon. O.H. Browning Secretary of the Interior... Compiled from authorized explorations of Pacific Rail Road Routes, Public Surveys, and other reliable data from the Departments of Government at Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.: J.F. Gedney, lithographer, 1867.
Folding lithographed map mounted on linen, partly colored in outline (1238 x 1485 mm; folding to 266 x 225 mm). (Separations and small losses along folds, occasionally affecting letters and image, folds reinforced with tape on verso.) Original half-leather, gilt-lettered on front cover, printed letter of W.J. Keeler on pastedown (rebacked); cloth folding case. Provenance: John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Oregon Rail Road (morocco label on front cover).
INSCRIBED BY KEELER on his printed letter: "Compliments W.J. Keeler." According to Keeler's letter, the map "is a complete Railroad Map, the only one published which shows the whole of the great Pacific Railroad Routes and their projections and branches, together with all other railroads in the States and Territories bordering on the Mississippi on both sides, showing at a glance the eastern connections of those Pacific roads with the existing railroad systems of the country... The location of all the known mines of gold, silver, copper, and other valuable metals are carefully and accurately noted... The profound interest now felt by the whole American people in the great thoroughfares progressing or projected in the Indian troubles, in the rapid advance of settlement, and in the development of new features of grandeur and beauty, and new sources of national wealth, will cause this Map to be hailed as a source of instruction and enjoyment by all... Particular interest is invited to the Colorado river as here shown. It is from actual survey, and exhibits that magnificent stream as it has never been mapped before..." Graff 2281; Howes K22; Wheat Transmississippi West 1170.
Folding lithographed map mounted on linen, partly colored in outline (1238 x 1485 mm; folding to 266 x 225 mm). (Separations and small losses along folds, occasionally affecting letters and image, folds reinforced with tape on verso.) Original half-leather, gilt-lettered on front cover, printed letter of W.J. Keeler on pastedown (rebacked); cloth folding case. Provenance: John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Oregon Rail Road (morocco label on front cover).
INSCRIBED BY KEELER on his printed letter: "Compliments W.J. Keeler." According to Keeler's letter, the map "is a complete Railroad Map, the only one published which shows the whole of the great Pacific Railroad Routes and their projections and branches, together with all other railroads in the States and Territories bordering on the Mississippi on both sides, showing at a glance the eastern connections of those Pacific roads with the existing railroad systems of the country... The location of all the known mines of gold, silver, copper, and other valuable metals are carefully and accurately noted... The profound interest now felt by the whole American people in the great thoroughfares progressing or projected in the Indian troubles, in the rapid advance of settlement, and in the development of new features of grandeur and beauty, and new sources of national wealth, will cause this Map to be hailed as a source of instruction and enjoyment by all... Particular interest is invited to the Colorado river as here shown. It is from actual survey, and exhibits that magnificent stream as it has never been mapped before..." Graff 2281; Howes K22; Wheat Transmississippi West 1170.