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A Map of the Sources of the Colorado & Big Salt Lake, Platte, Yellow-stone, Muscle-Shell, Missouri; & Salmon & Snake Rivers, Branches of the Columbia River. (1837)

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Title A Map of the Sources of the Colorado & Big Salt Lake, Platte, Yellow-stone, Muscle-Shell, Missouri; & Salmon & Snake Rivers, Branches of the Columbia River. (1837)
Identifier http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu556 wsu 556; F592 .I708 v. 1 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,696
Creator Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Date 1837 2000 - 2002
Publisher Philadelphia, Carey, Lea, & Blanchard
Description 1 map: 42 x 39 cm. Scale: 2 inches = 45 miles. Captain Benjamin Bonneville, on leave from the U.S. Army, took a four year expedition, from 1832 to 1836, into the American west. They traveled parallel to the course of the Snake and the Columbia, and though they did reach Fort Walla Walla, they never managed to reach as far as Fort Vancouver or the Willamette Valley before turning back into modern day Idaho. From there, they turned south, and headed down into California (then part of...
Subject West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- Maps
Type Maps
Coverage United States -- West
Rights Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691
Format Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.5 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg
Contributor Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Language English
Relation Is found in The Rocky mountains: or, Scenes, incidents, and adventures in the far West; digested from the journal of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville . and illustrated from various other sources

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