Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
This is a government survey report issued by the United States War Department in Washington in 1855, compiled to test possible railroad routes from the Mississippi to the Pacific for Congress and the public. Its plates are lithographed natural history and landscape views: fossil shells, sea urchins, and a rotated panorama of a western valley with travellers and pack animals, useful to designers for scientific plate layouts and early Western scenery.
