An appealing manuscript map of the Manzanita mine in the Sweetland mining district, Nevada County, California. The settlement of Sweetland was established by the Sweetland brothers in 1850. They are also known to have operated a trading post there in 1852. Henry Pettit Sweetland was a California State Assemblyman...
A skillfully drawn manuscript map, which appears to have been compiled for an official purpose, but does not appear to have been published. This map focuses on the waterfront villages of Marshfield, Massachusetts, a town perhaps best known as the home of Daniel Webster, whose house in Green Harbor...
![Journal of Marches [in the southern plains and southwest]. Frank West.](/pictures/thumb/4609_1.jpg?v=1547072385)
A remarkable manuscript journal of military marches on the western frontier compiled by 2nd Lieut. Frank West, 6th U.S. Cavalry, with compelling narrative content and topographical information, including minutely detailed manuscript maps for each march. The journal reflects military activity on the southern plains during and surrounding the Red River.....