Mitchell: Map of the United States & Territories, 1860
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Very nice example of early edition of Mitchell's atlas map of the United States. This map illustrates the evolving territorial borders of the Trans-Mississippi West. New Mexico is shown above Arizona in a horizontal configuration which existed very briefly in what came to be known as the Baylor Line (Gadsden Purchase of 1854 is also noted). The Confederate Territory of Arizona appears in the southern third of New Mexico Territory. Between August 1861 and July 1862, Confederate officer John R. Baylor appointed himself the territorial governor and claimed all of New Mexico Territory south of the 34th Parallel for the Confederacy. Nebraska runs from the Rocky Mountains to Iowa and a massive Dacotah Territory includes all of Montana, Wyoming and part of Idaho. Washington Territory wraps around Oregon, incorporating much of modern day Idaho. Nevada is truncated at the bottom, putting Las Vegas in New Mexico. Its eastern border with Utah is also several degrees west of its final location, which would be moved out of concern for the Mormon influence in Utah. The newly delineated Colorado is shown in its first year as a Territory. Shows early explorers routes, forts, Indians, railroads, towns, rivers, mountains, etc., and is rich with topographical and historical information. Marvelous contrast from the 1860 edition, issued the prior year, with significant changes to the various western territorial borders and the first delineated appearances of Colorado, Nevada and Arizona, along with a significant change in Dacota Territory, Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. A great view of America in the midst of the Civil War.
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