Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Asa Whitney” in chapter 1, page 146 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3:
...ity of obtaining communication better from a military point of view, and other considerations led to talk of a railway to California.
George Wilkes published in 1845 a volume now rare, .
In 1848, Asa Whitney made addresses, memorials, and petitions for a transcontinental railway, and he gave his plan in a Congressional document, , : Memorial of Asa Whitney for grants of land to enable him to build a rail...
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