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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For folks with a keen interest in Western history, our
Josephy Library is a small treasure ground. And like any treasure field, the
prizes show up almost at random.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Summer intern Erik Johnson, a bibliophile and student of Don
Snow’s at Whitman College, suggested I take a look at this one yesterday. He guessed
that it was one of our rarer holdings. </span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">And I think he’s right: Volume VI of the <i>Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to
Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economic Route for a Railroad from the
Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean</i>, a twelve-volume mammoth undertaking
exploring four prospective railroad routes to the Pacific, made by the Army
Corps of Topographical Engineers to the Secretary of War, published between
1855 and 1860. </span></p>

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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Volume VI is the report of Lt. Henry Abbot on potential
railroad routes from Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River... </span><a href="http://josephylibrary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://josephylibrary.blogspot.com/</a><br clear="all"><br></div>Happy fourth!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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