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Title: In the Senate of the United States ... Mr. Ramsey submitted the following Memorial, &c. Northern Pacific Railroad. Memorial of the Board of Directors of the company, communications from Lieutenant General Grant, Brevet Major General Meigs, Q.M.G, and Brevet Major General Ingalls, A.Q.M., and report of the engineer-in-chief, November, 1867 Author: Ramsey, Alexander, Edwin F. Johnson et al. Place: Washington Publisher: Date: 1867 Description: 39 pp. With large folding hand-colored lithographed map. 23x15 cm. (9x5¾"), removed from larger volume. First Edition. Rare pamphlet on the proposed Northern Pacific Railroad, construction of which began in 1870, and completed in 1883. The large map, 55x114 cm., is "Map of the Country from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean from the Latest Explorations and Surveys. To Accompany the Report of Edwin F. Johnson Chf. Engr. Northern Pacific R.R. November 1867." It covers from Detroit west to the Pacific, well into Canada and south to about the 39th parallel and the Great Salt Lake. Features include the Pony Express route, overland mail routes, Fremont's exploration routes and dates, proposed and existing railroads, wagon roads, forts and much more. Along the top is a profile of the Northern Pacific Route across the country. It was also issued as a separate folding map. Phillips, America, p. 916; Wheat Transmississippi 1169 & Vol. 5, Part 1, pp. 205-209. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine condition, the map crisp and clean. Item number: 232222