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Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855)

United States. War Department, author · Washington [D.C.] : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer · leaf 711

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Union, at the mouth of the Yellowstone, are, in shape, almost precisely like those of one specimen of C. columbianus , from San Francisco. They are doubly and nearly equally dichotomized. The first fork falls a little short of the middle of the antler, the second fork of each branch falls a little… … Fig. 19. Cervus macrotis, No. 831. Big Sioux, Neb. Right horn from inside. Size, 8.23 inches to the inch. Fig. 20. Same species, (2918.) Yellowstone. Right horn from inside. Size, 5 inches to the inch. 83 L

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