• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Report of the Secretary of War communicating the several Pacific railroad explorations. In three volumes. Volume 1
  • Contributor: Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson [Other]; Stevens, Isaac Ingalls [Other]; Warren, Gouverneur Kemble [Other]
  • Corporation: United States, War Dept ; United States, War Dept, Topographical Bureau
  • imprint: Washington, DC, 1854
    Online-Ausg.: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2004
  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 736
    Ex. doc. / 33rd Congress, 1st session. House ; no. 129, vol.1
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (763 p); tables
  • Language: English
  • Reproductino series: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2004
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  • Footnote: Alphabetical index to Governor Stevens's report follows p. 599
    An examination by direction of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, of the reports of explorations for railroad routes from the Mississippi to the Pacific, made under the orders of the War Department in 1853-'54, and of the explorations made previous to that time, which have a bearing on on the subject, by Capt. A. A. Humphreys & Lieut. G. K. Warren, follows p. 43
    Publication contains discontinuous pagination. Pages listed in the Contents Note reflect printed page numbers within successive, separately paginated parts of the publication
    Report of Maj. General Thos. S. Jesup, Quartermaster General U.S. Army, upon the cost of transporting troops and supplies to California, Oregon, New Mexico, etc., etc., follows p. 117
    Report of exploration of a route for the Pacific Railroad, near the forty-seventh and forty-ninth parallels from St. Paul to Puget Sound follows p. 4
    Report of the northern Pacific Railroad exploration and survey follows p. xii
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