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The A. B. Gray Report: Survey of a Route on the 32nd Parallel for the Texas Western Railroad, 1854 by Gray, Andrew Belcher; Bailey, L. R - 1963

by Gray, Andrew Belcher; Bailey, L. R

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The A. B. Gray Report: Survey of a Route on the 32nd Parallel for the Texas Western Railroad, 1854 by Gray, Andrew Belcher; Bailey, L. R - 1963

The A. B. Gray Report: Survey of a Route on the 32nd Parallel for the Texas Western Railroad, 1854

by Gray, Andrew Belcher; Bailey, L. R

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Los Angeles: Westernlore Press. Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings.. 1963. Hardcover. xix, 240pp. Green blindstamped cloth. Reprint of Gray's 1856 survey for the Southern Pacific Railroad and Texas Western Railroad. Black and white illustrations, index, bibliography. Includes reminiscences of Peter R. Brady, who accompanied the expedition. Edited and with introduction and notes, by L. R. Bailey. Great West and Indian Series XXIV, Western Survey Series II. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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  • Book Condition Used - Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings.
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Westernlore Press
  • Place of Publication Los Angeles
  • Date Published 1963
  • Keywords Western Americana, Railroad Surveys

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Report of the Secretary of the Interior, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, of January 22, Communication a Report and Map of A. B. Gray, Relative to the Mexican Boundary

by Andrew Belcher "A B" Gray (1820-1862)

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50 pages with folding maps. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in half leather over marbled boards, with gilt lettering to spine, housed in a custom enclosure. 33d Congress, 2d session. Inscribed by the author. Senate. Ex. doc. 55. First edition.
Andrew Belcher Gray was an American surveyor. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he studied engineering and surveying under Andrew Talcott, and surveyed the Mississippi Delta with him in 1839, before joining the Texas Navy as a midshipman. Remaining in the Republic of Texas, he was appointed a surveyor for the Texas-U.S. boundary commission led by Memucan Hunt. In 1844–1846, he served as U.S. government mineral surveyor, mapping the rich copper country of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan and leasing out the government's mineral lands.
He returned to the new state of Texas during the Mexican–American War. Following the war, he served as chief surveyor of the US–Mexican commission which established the border after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. When the U.… Read More
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