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Old Roads |
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Famous Trails |
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Emigrant Routes from Atlantic to Pacific |
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Earliest Railroads and Later Ones, (and their Routes) |
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"Trails of Tears" (collection of the Five Tribes) |
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Old Towns (Mining, Lumbering and Those of the
Advancing Frontier from the East and West) |
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Stage Lines / Routes |
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Army and Private Forts (French, British, Spanish &
Indian) |
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Mining Areas |
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Tent Towns |
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Mail or Post Routes |
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Settlements with 1st settler dates |
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Indian Trails |
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Indian Tribal Areas |
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Ore Routes |
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Buffalo Areas |
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Ship Ports |
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Canal Routes |
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River Steamer routes |
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Ocean Commerce routes |
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Ship Data |
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Political History Notes |
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Trapper Routes - Fur Trader Routes |
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Telegraph Lines |
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Military Routes |
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Army Calvary Patrols |
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Trading posts |
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Battle Sites |
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Missions |
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Map Selections
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State song "Oh Fair New Mexico" compiled by Sheriff Pat Garrett’s blind daughter |
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1849 dep’t of Interior (U.S.) who created and took over "Indian Affairs" from Army |
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Elizabethtown - 1st town to incorporate and hydraulic mining for "placering" 200 killed thru Santa Fe Ring War |
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Colt "peacemaker" .45 single-action produced 1873 to 1941 = 357,000 Re-start ’55 made in 30 calibers - (different) |
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Sizes - small: 25x23" large: 31x28"" |
Perry Van Arsdale New Mexico
This map has a tremendous amount of old roads, emigrant routes (thru state),inter-fort military routes, stage lines and stations, ore and freight routes, springs and watering places, Indian tribal areas and later reservations, early settlements and towns, early railroads, telegraph lines, old forts, heliographs, early cattle routes, sheep and farming areas (early), Indian raiding areas battle sites, early mining towns, ghost towns, early post offices, political history, Spanish trade rotes, salt trails and fights, parts of the old Spanish trail, Santa Fe Trail, Chisum Trail, Goodnight-Loving trails, Slaughter trail, Stinson trail, Barlow-Sanderson Stage lines, Butterfield Stage line, Coronado Freight line and camel routes. The map has hundreds of dates covering the above and many, many historical notes and other items too numerous to mention. This map has been referred to as “mind-boggling”!
This map has been mentioned in two books:
Out of the Dust – Utah’s Lost Mines and Hidden Treasure by Stephen B Shaffer, Pages 179 and 180
Four Days from Fort Wingate – The Lost Adams Diggings by Richard French,
Pages 185-187
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