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KARTE UBER REISE VON INDEPENDENCE... (Map of a tour from Independence to Santa Fe, Chihuahua...) with booklet. 1850Dr. Frederick Wislizenus, Braunschweig, Germany The scarce German edition of a map issued two years earlier in Washington (Wheat 573; this map is Wheat 701). Wislizenus, a St. Louis physician, traveled from Independence to Santa Fe in May-June 1846, and in August to Chihuahua, where he learned Santa Fe had been captured by the Americans. Detained in Mexico, he was able to join Col. Alexander Doniphan's forces and return to the U.S. in June 1847. The map covers all of Texas, Oklahoma, much of New Mexico and part of northern Mexico, with great detail along Wislizenus' route. The routes of Doniphan, Josiah Gregg, General Wool and others are charted. There is also a "Geological Sketch" and a large, stop-by-stop route map. The map has narrow margins, adequate for framing. The booklet's original paper covers (front is pictured) are detached, but the entire booklet is secure within a plain cover. $650 (SW167) |
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