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Auction 105, Lot 219
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"Map of the Country Upon the Brazos and Big Witchita Rivers Explored in 1854...Embracing the Lands appropriated by the State of Texas for the Use of the Indians", U.S. War Dept.

Subject: Texas

Period: 1854 (dated)

Publication: Senate Doc. 60, 34th Cong. 1st Sess.

Color: Black & White

Size:
31 x 26.5 inches
78.7 x 67.3 cm
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Detailed map that covers the northeastern part of Texas and a portion of Oklahoma, just north of the Red River, which is noted as Chocktaw territory. Filled with details including many place names, wagon roads, forts, reservations, woodlands, bayous, etc. From the 1854 explorations of Capt. R.B. Marcy of the 5th Infantry.

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Condition: B

Issued folding, now backed with archival tissue. A little toning along some folds, else very good.

Estimate: $300 - $350

Sold for: $275

Closed on 12/3/2003

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