Map 1:  Utah ~ from the Green River Valley
to the Great Salt Lake
Including Rivers and Towns between 109° and 112°30´ west longitude
and 39° and 42° degrees north latitude.  The routes of the Survey Party are
indicated, including their campsites, which are indicated by date.
Further topographical details are provided along the survey route.
18  x  20.5 inches

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Historical notes below

Print Type:   Single-sided Lithograph.
Publication Date:  1861.
Map Title:  Explorations and Surveys for a Rail Road Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. War Department.  Route near the 41st Parallels.
Map No. 1  From the Valley of Green River to the Great Salt Lake; from Explorations and Surveys made under the direction of the Hon. Jefferson Davis Secretary of War by  Captain E. G. Beckwith, 3rd Artillery.   F. W. Egloffstein Topographer for the Route 1855
Scale of 12 Miles to one inch or 1:760320
Source:   Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.  Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-56.  According to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854.  Volume XI.  Washington: George W. Bowman, Printer, 1861.
Total Size Including Margins:  Unfolded: 18  x  20.5 inches

History:  In 1853, the U.S. Congress authorized the Corps of Topographic Engineers to undertake a survey of potential rail routes between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean.  This print is an illustration from the report of the survey at the 41st parallel under the leadership of Lt. Edward G. Beckwith, in the region between the Green River Valley and the Sacramento River Valley, conducted in 1854.  Beckwith's survey was a continuation of the survey at the 38th and 39th parallels headed by Captain John Gunnison, which was terminated in October, 1853 after Gunnison, artist Richard Kern and others were killed by Indians along the Sevier River, in what is now Utah.  The precisely detailed landscape drawings of Egloffstein were coordinated with the maps produced.  The specific location from which the five panoramas were drawn is indicated on the relevant map.  ~~~  Although the title of this map only references the 41st parallel survey under Beckwith, the map includes the survey route of the Gunnison party for October and November, 1853.  It is a continuation of the Gunnison route that follows the route set out in Map 4 of the set of maps associated with that survey.
Beckwith's group began their work on April 4, 1854, after wintering in Salt Lake City.  Egloffstein joined the survey at this time, acting as artist and topographer.   Their work concluded in July, 1854 in the Sacramento River Valley.

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Courtesy of William Husson.