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Publication is "comprised of a trimmed fragment of the rare George Elliott broadside map of the United States, which has been repurposed on the frontier as an overland guide to the Gold Regions of Colorado, with a custom made label and at least 5 different hand drawn routes to the Colorado Gold Regions. The original broadside map from which this map was taken is George W. Elliott's rare and highly important map, in which only a few surviving examples are known. ... A swath of gold color has been added to the present map, extending from the Black Hills to the Santa Fe New Mexico area. A north-south road is shown in the gold regions, extending from the Pike's Peak Area through the Denver area and up to approximately Laramie, Wyoming. ... This would appear to be a unique survival."--Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps. George Elliott's 1856 broadside repurposed J.H. Colton's 1855 general-purpose United States map as basis for his broadside map, which an unknown publisher then hand trimmed to use as part of this publication.