Relief map showing surface features of the western part of the United States, (1915)

Relief map showing surface features of the western part of the United States, (1915)

Railroads -- West (U.S.) -- Maps<br>Railroad travel -- Northwest, Pacific -- Maps<br>West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks<br>Northern Pacific Railroad

1 map : col., 23 x 30 cm. <br>"U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 611 plate 1"<br>Areas shown on the sheets of the route map are indicated in red." For example, see sheets <br>27: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu257 <br>26: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu256 <br>25: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu255 <br>24: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu254 <br>23: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu253 <br>22: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu252 <br>21: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu251 <br> In 1915 and 1916, the United States Geological Survey, under the direction of George Otis Smith, prepared four initial volumes of the "Guidebook of the Western United States". Two further volumes were later produced, one in 1922 and the other in 1933. With multiple transcontinental railroads now in existence, and having been so for a few decades, transcontinental tourism had become accessible to the general public. These guidebooks provided both maps and a running text describing the geological and historical significance of the route the railway followed. The self-stated intent of the guides was to "encourage many thousand of Americans to study geography at first hand" and to "stimulate the eye in the selection of the essentials in the scene that so rapidly unfolds itself in the crossing of the continent." <br>These maps come from Volume A, "The Northern Pacific with a side trip to Yellowstone Park."

Campbell, Marius R. (Marius Robinson), 1858-1940.

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Washington : Govt. Print. Off.

1915

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Is part of Guidebook of the western United States, part A : the Northern Pacific route, with a side trip to Yellowstone Park by Marius R. Campbell and others.

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Maps

WSU 231<br>F597 .C359 1915

United States--Washington (State)