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Pacific Railway.
The greatest of American railroad enterprises undertaken up to that time was the construction of a railway over the great plains and lofty mountain-ranges between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean.
As early as 1846 such a work was publicly advocated by Asa Whitney.
In 1849, after the discovery of gold in California promised a rapid accumulation of wealth and population on the Pacific coast, Senator Thomas H. Benton introduced a bill into Congress providing for preliminary steps in such an undertaking.
In 1853 Congress passed an act providing for surveys of various routes by the corps of topographical engineers.
By midsummer, 1853, four expeditions for this purpose were organized to explore as many different routes.
One, under Major Stevens, was instructed to explore a northern route, from the upper Mississippi to Puget's Sound, on the Pacific coast.
A second expedition, under the direction of Lieutenant Whipple, was directed to cross the continent f
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presidential administrations. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 6 : return to New York journalism (search)
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)