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Lithograph Mountains Near Canada de Las Uvas

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Lithograph Mountains Near Canada de Las Uvas
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Lithograph Mountains Near Canada de Las Uvas U.S.P.R.R. SURVEY LITHOGRAPHS (1855) An original lithograph from the United States Pacific Rail Road Surveys published in 1855. ''MOUNTAINS NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE CANADA DE LAS UVAS'' Original Lithograph. Artist: Charles Koppel Lithograph by T. Sinclair, Philadelphia Visual measures 6'' x 9'', framed and matted, under glass, **HISTORY** In 1853, the U.S. congress sent several teams of surveyors from the Corps of Topographical Engineers to survey potential rail routes from the Misssissippi to the Pacific. They were accompanied by naturalists and artists who were to capture the images of the ''wild west''. It was a dangerous expedition with Captain John W. Gunnison, artist R.H Kern, and seven others from Gunnison's survey team being killed in October of 1853, by the Ute Indians in Utah. These lithographs were part of the official government report which would ultimately determine the rail route and forever change the United States.