Alaska

[el cid again]

The map has what must be in someone's mind "the Ididerod Trail" - from Anchorage to Nome. While a great sled dog relief of a diptheria epidemic occurred before the WPO period along a somewhat similar route - it is not a trail as such. For one thing, it goes down rivers - which means it cannot be used except when there is ice. And in no area does it come up to standard as a vehicle trail.

There is also a wholly fictional railroad. While Alaska in this period has two rail lines - the only one that matters runs from Seward through Anchorage to Fairbanks. The other one runs up the Copper River to Kennicott - where it ends at a copper mine. There is no loop as shown on the map. Nor is there any coastal road or rail line in BC as shown - you must even now drive many hundreds of KM in a great loop to get from Southern BC to Northern BC. Whoever did this map art did little research - and certainly did not look at a map in any era.

I think possibly we should adapt the RHS map backwards (removing roads etc) for use with WPO.

[el cid again]

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