1-631-468 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Cheyenne River, USA, 1856. Members of the United States Pacific Railroad Survey exploration party camp near the Cheyenne River in present day North Dakota. Print from Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-1855, by Beverley Tucker, volume III, published by Sarony, Major and Knapp (Washington, 1856).