Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke fr c. 1920 southern Scandinavia)

southern Scandinavia)

especially along the front range

Image size is 16 x 19 (inches)

Includes a small inset for Porto Rico

Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke fr c. 1920 southern Scandinavia)Sketch 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