Johnson’s North America. Johnson & Browning, 1861. 16.5 x 22 (17.75 x 26.5 paper size). Huge top and bottom margins. Three tiny chips at right edge and four small repaired edge tears. 1.5” archival tape repair to top and bottom centerfold, otherwise excellent condition.

This map’s most significant change is the inclusion of Colorado territory, which was incorporated in February of 1861, just as the map was about to hit the presses. Nevada also became a territory in 1861. The outbreak of the Civil War and the wealth of silver under Virginia City (here identified as ‘Mormon Settlement’) hastened the conferment of territorial status on Nevada. The new borders of Nevada as set in the territorial charter forced Johnson to revise his 1860 map, moving the Utah-Nevada border three degrees west to longitude 116 and the California border westward to the Sierra Nevada range. This unusual choice infringed upon California’s border charter inciting a border dispute between the two regions. The dispute was formally resolved in 1863 roughly according to the original California charter. Besides Johnson's California Territories of New Mexico and Utah, this is the only other example of Johnson’s southwest map to show Nevada’s original territorial border configuration. The odd Nevada borderline is clearly evident but the colorist apparently wasn’t advised of the change in border. In New Mexico and Arizona the latitudinal border between New Mexico and Arizona has been removed that was in the 1860 edition. This was most likely in response to Arizona’s petition for territorial status independent of New Mexico being denied by the U.S. Congress. With only a small population and minimal political influence this region was largely ignored by the New Mexico territorial government in distant Santa Fe. Though Arizona applied several times to be granted independent territorial status, its low population caused the request to be repeatedly rejected. Curiously, in the same year this map as issued, the Confederate Col. John Robert Baylor would invade southern New Mexico and declare himself governor of the Confederate State of Arizona, which briefly reappears in the 1862 and 1863 Civil War editions of this map.

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