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A detailed early map of a portion of the north-western United States from one of the most important American cartographers. $150
"Johnson's Minnesota and Dakota." New York: Johnson & Ward, ca. 1865. 12 5/8 x 15 1/2. Lithograph. Original hand color. Very good condition.
A later edition of the map above. $145
A.J. Johnson. "Johnson's Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado, Montana & Kansas." New York: Johnson & Ward, ca. 1864. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2. Lithograph. Original hand coloring. Light stain and brittleness in lower left corner; repaired tear. Otherwise, very good condition.
Johnson's map of the configuration modified from the situation shown in the map above, depicting the area about 1864. By 1861 Kansas and Nebraska had been reorganized into their present configurations, the Dakota Territory, to the north, had the Idaho Territory broken off in 1863, comprising present-day Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. In 1864, the Montana Territory was broken off, and this map is the first version of the Johnson map to show it thusly. The detail in this map is most impressive, showing rivers, towns, forts, Indian tribes, and the early trails which criss-crossed this region. This map, issued the end of the Civil War, shows these territories just before they were filled with new settlers, miners and other speculators. $175
"Dakota Territory." Washington: General Land Office, 1866. 23 1/2 x 20 3/4. Lithograph by Major & Knapp. Original outline color. Some slight wear and light discoloration along folds. Very good condition. Wheat: 1150. Denver.
The U.S. General Land Office (GLO) was established in 1812 with responsibility to survey and control the dispersal of public lands. All public land was required to be surveyed prior to settlement, and the first director of the GLO, Thomas Hutchins, set up a systematic process of rectangular survey for the public lands and launched the great national project to survey and map the public domain in the entire country, a procedure which got under way in the famous "seven ranges" of southeast Ohio. Each surveyor was to record not only geography, but also features of the landscape with economic import, such as roads, Indian trails, existing settlements, Indian lands, mineral deposits, and of particular interest, railroads and their rights of way. Of note is that unlike most surveys of the time, the surveyors were instructed not to apply new names to the landscape, but to use "the received names of all rivers, creeks, lakes, swamps, prairies, hills, mountains and other natural objects."
By mid-century the GLO had completed most of the surveys for the lands between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, and so focused most of its attention to the American west for the rest of the century. The GLO published mostly state maps, which were issued in annual reports, bound into state atlases, and in a few atlases that combined all the current maps in progress. These maps produced by the GLO are the most accurate and detailed maps of the U.S., based on rigorous and comprehensive surveys not hindered by commercial concerns. These maps proved very useful to private American mapmakers, and they were often the basis for state and county maps in the second part of the nineteenth century. This 1866 map shows the territory five years after it was created and three years after the western part (Idaho Territory) was broken off. The Missouri River is the main focus of the map, which extends as far as its junction with the Yellowstone River, and most of the settlement is limited to the southeastern corner. A good early map of the territory. $375
"County Map of Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado." Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1870. 20 x 14 3/4. Lithograph. Original hand color. With old repairs at centerfold separation. Otherwise, very good condition.
This map shows the northern plains at a time when the railroads were opening up the region to new settlement. Completed in 1869, the transcontinental railroad ran across the center of the area shown here, from Omaha to the South Pass in western Wyoming. The railroads facilitated the movement of emigrants through and into this area--already begun by the emigration to Oregon, the California Gold Rush and Pike's Peak Gold Rush(noted on this map as "Gold Region"). This led to the creation of new states, such as Kansas (1861), Nebraska (1867), as well as territories such as Colorado, Dakota, Montana, and the just created Wyoming (1869).
This detailed map provides a good topographical picture of the region, with the rivers and mountains depicted, as are the locations of the plains Indian tribes which played such an important (and tragic) role in the opening of the west. The maps also well represents the development of this region, picturing towns, forts, roads and trails. Of particular interest is the depiction of the railroads, which are indicated sometimes following the early routes of explorers, also shown on the map. The Union Pacific Railroad, completed just the year before this map was published, is shown running through Nebraska to Cheyenne and then west, while the two railroads into Denver-one to Cheyenne to meet the Union Pacific and one directly east to Kansas City-both completed just the year this map was issued, are both shown. This is a fine map of the classic "Wild West" of popular lore. $185
"County Map Of Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, and Minnesota." Chicago: Warner & Beers, 1872. 16 1/2 x 13 1/4. Lithograph. Original hand color. Very good condition.
An unusual map from the Warner & Beers Atlas of Whiteside Co. (IL), which contained also maps of other Illinois counties and also the H.H. Lloyd Atlas of the United States. Details in Kansas and Nebraska are quite good, showing the extensive development by the early 1870s reaching west along the rail lines, which are clearly market. Minnesota is also shown as well settled, but Dakota-not yet divided into North and South-is relatively sparsely populated except in the south eastern part. $225
"County Map of Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota Montana." Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1874. 19 1/2 x 14. Lithograph. Original hand color. Very good condition. Denver.
A later version of the Mitchell map of the northern plains states (cf. above), which is shifted slightly to the northwest, leaving off Kansas which appeared on the earlier version. The reason for that was the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. On the earlier map, the western parts of Wyoming and Montana (then almost totally unsettled) were not included, but this map shows as far as the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and includes a depiction of the new park. The map also shows the considerable development of Colorado, which was in the middle of the silver boom. New towns and railroads are depicted, providing a good picture of the territory just two years before statehood. $225
Oliver J. Stuart. "Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Dakota, Colorado and Montana." From McNally's System of Geography. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1874. 8 3/8 x 10 5/8. Lithograph. Original hand color. Very good condition. Denver.
A map of the northern plains issued just before the Centennial, a period of considerable change in the region. Just a few years before, the first transcontinental railroad was opened, and that is prominently depicted running across the central part of the map. The spur built south from Cheyenne to Denver and Pueblo is also shown. Montana and Wyoming had been created as territories within the last decade and the routes leading from eastern Nebraska to these northern regions are indicated. Of particular note, however, is the indication of "GOLD" in the Black Hills. This is one of the first mentions of gold there, just at the beginning of the Black Hills gold rush. Forts, towns, mountains, rivers, and other mineral locations are also indicated throughout. A very nice map of the region. $65
"County and Township Map of Dakota." Philadelphia: Bradley & Co., 1882. 13 5/8 x 11 1/4. Lithograph. Original hand color. Very good condition.
This map illustrates the Dakotas just five years before its separation into North and South. Bradley published some of the post-1880 editions of S. Augustus Mitchell's atlas, and this map came from one of those. With the events of 1874-76, the development in the western part of the territory expanded rapidly, as is evidenced on this map with its copious information in the southwest corner, including the "Black Hills Base Line" and "Guide Meridian" of the U.S. survey. Development progressed throughout the territory, though still sparse in the northwest. A fine map of the last days of Dakota Territory. $65
"Map of Dakota and Minnesota." Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1884. 11 1/4 x 17 1/4. Chromolithograph. Very good condition.
A promotional map published by Rand, McNally in their early days. It bears the legend "Presented by Graves & Vinton First Mortgage Loans, St. Paul, Minn. United States of America." $45
Geographical Publishing Company. "North Dakota." Chicago: ca. 1930. 14 1/2 x 21. Color screen prints. Very good condition. $55
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