Whitney, Asa:

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. JULY 31, 1846. MR. BREESE MADE THE FOLLOWING REPORT:...

29th Cong., 1st Sess. SD466. 1846. 51pp, Disbound and loosened, lightly age-toned. Good+. The Committee on Public Lands reports favorably and in detail on Whitney's proposals to construct a national railroad from the Mississippi to the Columbia rivers, and from Lake Michigan to the Pacific. "Whitney was the first to bombard Congress with plans for a transcontinental railway." Howes. FIRST EDITION. Item #14112

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