Map of the Western Territory &c. [with text:] Regulating the Indian Department

Washington Hood & Horace Everett

Edité par Washington Hood & Horace Everett, 1834

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Washington Hood's Map of Western Territory Important early map of Indian Territory and the first map by Washington Hood, accompanied by Horace Everett's Regulating The Indian Department. The map extends from Santa Fe, Octavo. Stitched gatherings. Untrimmed. 131 pages plus folding map. Leaves tanned. Map with some tiny losses along center horizonal fold. Nice untrimmed example housed in a custom blue cloth clamshell case, with the map loose and laid in together with the text. Washington Hood's Map of Western Territory Important early map of Indian Territory and the first map by Washington Hood, accompanied by Horace Everett's Regulating The Indian Department. The map extends from Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Yellowstone River in the west, to the Mississippi River, Ft. Smith and Ft. Towson, focusing on the regions occupied by the Indians relocated from the east. Curiously, Texan territory is labeled "Spanish Territory" (rather than Mexican), which was over a decade out of date by the point the map was published. Wheat described it as a highly credible performance, showing the country north of the Red River to Nebraska, and west from the Ozarks to Santa Fe: the map "not only showed the various Indian Land assignments, by tribes, west of the Arkansas and Missouri, following McCoy, but its maker used Brown's Santa Fe trail material and delineated the country to the front wall of the Rockies and Santa Fe with considerable accuracy. The Black Hills run almost north and south. One curious point is that only the Spanish Peaks and "Larimer's" (Laramie) Peak (near the North Fork of the Platte) are shown in the mountains. It is supposed that Isaac McCoy assisted in the making of this map. He had offered advice to Humphrey Phelps and his manuscript map. apparently had considerable "influence." Everett's important report on the Indians relates to conditions in the country west of the Missouri. The report contains several documents: a report dated at Fort Gibson on Feb. 10, 1834 by M. Stokes, Henry L. Ellsworth and J.T. Schermerhorn; a protest by Stokes against the transfer of the principal military garrison from Fort Gibson to Fort Smith; and remarks by William P. May, A. S. Hughes, and J. L. Bean, on the upper Missouri trade.

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• Titre: Map of the Western Territory &c. [with text:] Regulating the Indian Department
• Éditeur: Washington Hood & Horace Everett
• Date de parution: 1834
• Reliure: No Binding
• État de l'article: Good
• Type de livre: Map
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Antique Maps