Map of Emigrant Trail and Butterfield Trail, Grayson County to Pecos.

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Map of the Southern Emigrant Trail, a major route for immigration into California, and the Butterfield Overland Mail Trail, a stagecoach service, through Texas. The map also indicates county lines, Indian Territory, towns, cities, roads, railroads, areas of elevation, and bodies of water. Relief shown in hachures. No scale indicated.

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1 map ; 73 x 151 cm.

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Map of the Southern Emigrant Trail, a major route for immigration into California, and the Butterfield Overland Mail Trail, a stagecoach service, through Texas. The map also indicates county lines, Indian Territory, towns, cities, roads, railroads, areas of elevation, and bodies of water. Relief shown in hachures. No scale indicated.

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1 map ; 73 x 151 cm.

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Abilene Library Consortium

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Historic topographic maps of locations in Texas and surrounding states. The detailed maps include precise locations of roads, waterways, structures and more.

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  • Sept. 14, 2014, 2:40 p.m.

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  • 33.717101, -96.654794

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Map of Emigrant Trail and Butterfield Trail, Grayson County to Pecos., map, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth494185/: accessed May 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.

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