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Box 9

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Albert M. Gillian, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, to Judge French, 1848 March 23

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 567
Identifier: id107435
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents

Importance of constructing a railroad from San Fransisco to the Mississippi River; Gillian's journal "travels in Mexico" which he claims is the first published work to propose such a railroad; Whitney's proposals regarding a railroad from the Columbia River to Lake Michigan; Dallas' plan for a canal across the Isthmus of Tehuantepee. 4 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1848 March 23