"[Map in Report] Map Showing the Route of E. F. Beale from Fort Smith, Ark. To Alburquerque N.M. 1858-9 [in] Wagon Road - Fort Smith to Colorado River. Letter of the Secretary of War...", U.S. Government
Subject: Texas, Oklahoma & New Mexico
Period: 1860 (published)
Publication: H.R. Doc. No. 42, 36th Congress, 1st Session
Color: Black & White
Size:
49 x 7 inches
124.5 x 17.8 cm
Edward F. Beale (1822-1893) had quite a career in the West including Indian Agent, surveyor and camel driver. His most lasting contribution was as a road builder. This map resulted from the survey of a road across present-day Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. His route roughly follows the Canadian River and closely parallels or is identical to that of Lt. Whipple just a few years earlier. A dotted line indicates where the routes diverge. Beale's 62 camp sites are numbered by day. Lithographed by Julius Bien. The map is still bound into the 91-page disbound report. Housed in archival paper covers with handwritten label.
References: Wheat (TMW) #939.
Condition: A
Folding map is near fine with a hint of toning along the sheet edges. Disbound text is clean and bright.
