S.A. Mitchell: New Map of the State of California, 1854
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A clean and exceptional example of this important map, with three wide margins as issued. Bright paper with vivid period hand coloring. The first American Atlas map to focus on the post-California Gold Rush western United States. Based on Mitchell's seminal pocket map of 1846, the map extends from Vancouver Island to the Gulf of California and from the Pacific shore to Pikes Peak and the Yellowstone River. This vast territory includes present-day California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, as well as adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico. Engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure. Issued just prior to the construction of the transcontinental railroads. Though California, following the Gold Rush population explosion, was admitted as a free state to the Union in 1850, the surrounding territories remained largely dominated by various American Indian nations, many of which are located on the map. Also noted are exploratory, emigrant, and military routes through the region, including the Spanish Trail from Los Angeles to Santa Fe., the Oregon Route, Lewis and Clark's Route, Lt. Col. Cooke's Wagon Road, and Kearney's Route along the Rio Gila. Though the Gadsden Purchase occurred the same year the map was published, it is not included here, so Tucson (Tueson) is set firmly within Mexican territory. However, several pre-Gadsden alternatives to the U.S. Mexico border, as proposed by Bartlett and Graham, are noted. One of a series of approximately 15 maps issued between 1846 and 1860 which shows the evolution of the Territories and States of the West from the earliest admission of Upper California as a Territory in 1846, through the creation of the Territories of Utah, New Mexico, & Washington, but pre-dating the creation of Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. Over the period, the cartographic detail of these maps evolves from a Pre-Fremont look at the west to a relatively established set of Territories and early county configurations. Early forts located, especially in Oregon Territory.
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S.A. Mitchell: New Map of the State of California, 1854
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