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Link To Map: A map of the Indian Territory, Northern Texas and New Mexico showing the Great Western Prairies

Title: A map of the Indian Territory, Northern Texas and New Mexico showing the Great Western Prairies
Content Date: 1844
Author: Gregg, Josiah
Publisher: Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breese
Size: 31 x 38 cm (12.2 x 15 inches)
Description:First map to carefully display the Llano Estacado or Staked Plain of Texas.Hand colored.Includes topographic features.Indicates locations of forts, military roads and trading posts.Includes routes of Captain Nathan Boone, Major Stephen Long, Captain Zebulon Pike, Texan Santa Fe Expedition, Colonel Phillip St. George Cooke, and Josiah Gregg.Identifies Santa Fe Trail as Santa Fe Caravans route.Shows Oregon Trail identified as Route of the Oregon Emigrants.Indicates Native American inhabitation.Removed from Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies.
Call Number: 1844-0002

Link To Map: Phelps's national map of the United States, a traveller's guide. Embracing the principal rail roads, canals, steam boat & stage routes, throughout the Union.

Title: Phelps's national map of the United States, a traveller's guide. Embracing the principal rail roads, canals, steam boat & stage routes, throughout the Union.
Content Date: 1845
Author: Atwood, John M.
Other Author(s): Phelps, Humphrey
Publisher: Ensigns & Thayer
Size: 54 x 64 cm (21.3 x 25.2 inches)
Description:Hand colored.Includes topographic features.Indicates locations of forts.Identifies Santa Fe Trail as Traders route to Santa Fe.Indicates Native American inhabitation.Inset maps: N. part of Maine, Vicinity of Philadelphia, Vicinity of Baltimore, Vicinity of New York, Vicinity of Boston, Southern part of Florida.Inset maps of Pittsburg, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati.Includes illustrated border with portraits of historical figures and state seals.Indicates state capitals, canals and railroads.
Call Number: 1845-0001

Link To Map: Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the 1842 and to Oregon & north California in the years 1843-44

Title: Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the 1842 and to Oregon & north California in the years 1843-44
Content Date: 1845
Author: Frémont, John Charles
Other Author(s): Abert, John James
Publisher: United States Senate
Size: 76 x 130 cm (29.9 x 51.2 inches)
Description:First published map to show the entire area west of the Mississippi as seen by a single party.Includes topographic features.Indicates locations of forts.Indicates Native American inhabitation.Has scale at top of map which shows height of mountains including Rockies, Cascades and Sierra Nevadas.
Call Number: 1845-0003

Link To Map: Planiglob zur Ubersicht der Verbreitung der Deutschen in beiden Hemispharen uber den ganzen Erdboden: Zugleich mit Angabe der oceanischen Wasser-Strassen, auf denen die Verbindung zwischen ihren Wohnsitzen bewirkt wird

Title: Planiglob zur Ubersicht der Verbreitung der Deutschen in beiden Hemispharen uber den ganzen Erdboden: Zugleich mit Angabe der oceanischen Wasser-Strassen, auf denen die Verbindung zwischen ihren Wohnsitzen bewirkt wird
Content Date: 1846
Author: Berghaus, Heinrich Karl
Corporate Author: Justus Perthes
Publisher: Justus Perthes
Size: 31 x 37 cm (12.2 x 14.6 inches)
Description:Shows the distribution of Germans throughout the world during the middle of the nineteenth century.Includes topographic features.Indicates Native American inhabitation.Includes inset maps showing German populations in eastern United States and in South Africa.Includes table of population statistics.Removed from Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus's Physikalischer Atlas with page number 3.
Call Number: 1846-0001

Link To Map: A new map of Texas, Oregon and California with the regions adjoining, compiled from the most recent authorities

Title: A new map of Texas, Oregon and California with the regions adjoining, compiled from the most recent authorities
Content Date: 1846
Copyright Date: 1925
Author: Mitchell, S. Augustus
Other Author(s): Burroughs, H. N.
Publisher: North Pacific Bank Note Co.
Size: 48 x 45 cm (18.9 x 17.7 inches)
Description:Includes topographic features.Indicates the locations of forts.Shows the trails and routes identified as the Great Spanish Trail from P. Angelos (Pueblo de los Angelos, now Los Angeles) to Santa Fe, Lewis and Clarkes (sic) route and Frémont's route.Indicates Native American inhabitation.Designates Oregon Trail as Oregon route on map and Emigrant Route from Missouri to Oregon in table of distances.Identifies Santa Fe Trail as Caravan route to Santa Fe.
Call Number: 1846-0002

Link To Map: Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and ending at the mouth of the Wallah Wallah in Columbia.

Title: Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and ending at the mouth of the Wallah Wallah in Columbia.
Content Date: 1846
Author: Preuss, Charles
Other Author(s): Frémont, John C.
Publisher: E. Weber & Co.
Size: 40 x 67 cm (15.7 x 26.4 inches)
Description:Includes topographic features.Indicates locations of forts.Includes Route to the Great Salt Lake and the Trail of the Pawnee Indians.Identifies Santa Fe Trail as Route from Santa Fé to Independence.Shows Frémont's routes of 1842 and 1843.Shows Oregon Trail identified as Pawnee Trail and Emigrant route from the mouth of the Platte.Indicates Native American inhabitation.Presented in seven sections, numbered I through VII.Each section includes chart of meteorological observations and remarks describing fauna, flora and other trail observations, and excerpts from Frémont's report.
Call Number: 1846-0003