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Auction 184, Lot 244

"Outline Map Showing a New Route from Texas to Fort Yuma, California, for Cattle Droves and Trains en Route to California", U.S. Corps of Engineers

Subject: Southwestern United States

Period: 1880 (published)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
49.3 x 14.4 inches
125.2 x 36.6 cm
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This unusual map, created by Capt. O.C. Overman, begins in Austin and shows in great detail the route to Fort Yuma, Arizona Territory. The route travels through numerous Army forts along the way: Cocho, Stockton, Quickman, Bliss, Selder, Commings, and the famous Ft. Bowie. It also passes though Maricopa Village and Wells and the Pima Villages, the site of today's Phoenix. There is remarkable detail of water holes, springs, grazing areas, missions, camps, Indian villages, and mines. The map lists four authorities including Pressler's Map of Texas (1867) and Gildart's Journal. The map's cartography is circa 1867, but it was published in an 1880 congressional report.

References: Wheat (TMW) #1216.

Condition: B

Issued folding with light toning and offsetting, a number of small splits at the fold junctions, and dampstains primarily in the top and bottom blank margins. A couple of short edge tears confined to the blank margins have been closed on verso with old tape.

Estimate: $250 - $325

Sold for: $250

Closed on 9/15/2021

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