Map Showing Detailed Topography of the Country Traversed by the Reconnaissance Expedition Through Southern and Southeastern Nevada in the Charge of Lieutenant George M. Wheeler and Assisted by Lieutenant D. W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, United States Army
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Wheeler, George Montague, 1842-1905
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Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John Wheeler and Miriam P. Daniels. He graduated from West Point in 1866, ranked sixth in his class, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He first served in California from 1866 to 1871. In 1869 General Edward O. C. Ord sent him on a reconnaissance through the eastern Nevada. In 1872, the US Congress authorized an ambitious plan to map the portion of the United States west of the 100th meridian at a sc...
