Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke fr ~Catalog 61~ County of Armagh

County of Armagh

Dense with notations but still very legible

Just one bridge connects Manhattan to its neighbors

The map is hand colored to distinguish the national borders

Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke fr ~Catalog 61~ County of ArmaghSketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, Cooke was the commander of the Mormon Battalion that followed the American Army to California during the Mexican War. His route from the Rio Grande to the Gila was south of Kearney's and he issued this map to illustrate his variant route. It passed through a largely unsettled area but does include Tucson ("Tueson"). The intriguing thing about the map is