Map shows trail route from Independence, Missouri (and also St. Joseph) to Sacramento, California across the "political divisions of the Great West": Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, California, and Nevada, landmarks and areas of Indian habitation. Includes note describing area and history of the route. Inset: United States west of Mississippi River showing political divisions in 1849. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.

Map shows Union and Confederate fortifications in the areas of Buzzard Roost, Georgia; roads and railroads; battlefields and positions of Indian forces and U.S. troops and cavalry in Minnesota and Dakota Territory, near Camp Sibley and Camp Pfaender. Includes explanations and notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.

Map shows street names, block and lot numbers, lot and street dimensions, railroad lines, and location of Chicago Machine Works. Scale not given.

Map shows counties, Native American reservations, railroads, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Includes index and statistical data. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,500,000].

Map shows counties, Native American reservations, railroads, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Includes index and statistical data. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,055,000].

Explanation and supporting information related to map that shows late nineteenth century areas and types of mineral concentration, mines, county lines, towns, railroads, mountain peaks, rivers, and tributaries in the Black Hills.

Map shows late nineteenth century areas and types of mineral concentration, mines, county lines, towns, railroads, mountain peaks, rivers, and tributaries in the Black Hills. Towns and railroads in Deadwood region are also indicated. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [1:316,800].

Introduction: It seems important that several general facts should be stated for the full understanding of terms used and allusions made in this report. The field considered is the region lying between the Missouri and James rivers, and between the latitudes of Jamestown, N. Dak., and Huron, S. Dak. 1. As has been stated in papers published by Chamberlin, Upham, myself, and others, several more or less distinct moraines have been observed in the Mississippi Valley. It has been found convenient to distinguish the outermost three by special names. President Chamberlin has named them, beginning with the outermost, Altamont, Gary, and Antelope moraines, from localities south of Big Stone Lake, and these names have been quite generally adopted. Upham and others have named them the First, Second, and Third, and as the outermost two are the more prominent, they have also been called the Outer and Inner moraines. Each of these, especially the First and Second, has subordinate divisions, which mark the borders of the different lobes into which the margin of the ice sheet was often divided. 2.) It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the generally recognized features of drift formations, such as the undulating topography …

Report discussing the Russian thistle in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota; its growth habits; and methods for destroying it. A brief appendix of notable weeds in the region follows.

Map shows railroads, Indian reservations, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,500,000] and [ca. 1:3,800,000].

Patent for the construction of "metallic spokes" for bicycles and similar wheels (Lines 12-13) which use broad or double tire wheels (line 15).

Patent for "novel and inexpensive means whereby vehicle wheels may be protected from the many accidents occurring by reason of the irregularities and crevices in the path of travel; a still further object being to construct a safety guard that will be strong, durable, and add but little weight to the wheel." (Lines 17-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a vehicle wheel meant for children's carriages that has double fellies, spokes, and a hub that has "an interposed band connecting said fellies at suitable intervals and adapted for the attachment to the spokes" (lines 69-71).

Patent for a wheel attachment of "combined purposes of tire, felly and safety guard" (lines 15-16), with slight wing-like widening between spokes to prevent sinking into ruts, with optional cutouts to reduce weight, including illustrations.

Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel with an improved design that is meant for light vehicles. The wheel will "provide novel means whereby the wheel will be prevented from slipping into ruts in the road, thus overcoming the jar that would otherwise be caused" (lines 14-18).

Patent for a simple, efficient, and inexpensive portable water cooler that refrigerates the water "by the action of the air and the evaporation of the liquid or vapor percolating the material" (lines 12-14). It does not use ice and can be used in rural areas.

Patent for an improvement on vehicle wheels to "provide a novel and inexpensive safety-guard for wheels of the above-referred-to class, whereby the wheel will be prevented from entering crevices and cracks" (lines 14-18) and to improve durability.

Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel in children's carriages with a double-felly wheel meant to broaden "the tread thereof sufficiently to prevent the wheels falling into cracks between boards of board walks, such as are common in the suburbs or rural districts" (lines 15-19). The spokes are like that of a single-felly wheel.

Patent for a steam coffee or tea pot that has "double walls forming an inner and outer chamber, an interiorly arranged spout connecting said chambers and a vent tube arranged in the spout communicating with the inner chamber" (lines 77-81).

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in toys. This design is to " produce a top which will be capable of unusual momentum with the resultant prolonged action" (line 10 - 12).

Patent for improvements in rotary pneumatic toys, "which can be carried by a child and caused to rotate by the action of the air when the toy is carried rapidly or if the air is violently circulated" (lines 11-15) including illustrations.