McLeod, Donald:

$2,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

HISTORY OF WISKONSAN, FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT PERIOD. INCLUDING A GEOLOGICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TERRITORY WITH A CORRECT CATALOGUE OF ALL ITS ... One of the earliest and rarest state histories to offer an account of the territory which now forms the state of Wisconsin. This copy contains not only the four plates, but the very rarely-seen folding map. The map, based on surveys by S. W. Higgins, a topographer with the Geological Survey of Michigan, shows not only Wisconsin, but also the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri as well as the then-territory of Iowa, made a state later the same year. The states are hand-colored, the territories of Iowa and Wisconsin are not. Open territories apportioned to Native American tribes are marked for the Delaware, Foxes and Sauks, Menomonies and Winnebagoes, Omahas, Kickapoos, Potawatomies, Ottowas, Chippwwas, Mandans, Pawnee, Dakota (Sioux – including the Warpeton band) and for the Neutral Ground established by the 1830 Treaty of Prairie du Chien to keep the various tribes from warring with each other. The four lithographed plates depict native burial mounds and remains. The book includes information concerning geography, natural resources, navigation on the Great Lakes, native inhabitants, commerce, means of travel, animal life, a section on ancient burial grounds and a catalogue of plants found in the vicinity of Milwaukee. Quite rare with both the map and the plates - we note only th

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