Valley of Kah-Wee-Ya River (Four Creeks)

Koppel, Charles · 1856

This tinted lithograph of “Valley of Kah-Wee-Ya River (Four Creeks)” was prepared by A. Hoen & Company (active 1843-1945), Baltimore, after an original sketch by expedition geologist and artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate IV following page 12 in the "Report of Lieutenant R. S. Williamson (1825-1882), Corps of Topographical Engineers, Upon the Routes in California to Connect with the Routes Near the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-second Parallels" by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson ... in 1853." as part of Volume V, Part I of the "Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean," printed in 1856 by A. P. O. Nicholson (1808-1876) of Washington, D.C.