Mitchell, S. Augustus:

$12,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

A NEW MAP OF TEXAS, OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. WITH THE REGIONS ADJOINING COMPILED FROM THE MOST RECENT AUTHORITIES. [Contained in:] A GENERAL VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES; COMPRISING, ALSO, A DESCRIPTION ... The very important 1846 Mitchell map of Texas and the American West, here included as frontispiece to his General View of the United States, published the same year. Samuel Augustus Michell was one of the most influential map publishers in America in the 19th century, also producing numerous travel guides and statistical compilations to accompany them. The map present here is one of his most significant, representing "a great step forward, in that it is among the first by a commercial cartographer to utilize the recent explorations that had bounded and determined the nature of the Great Basin...because of its popularity, this map of the West exerted great influence, not only with the public but on other commercial cartographers" (Wheat).Published in 1846, this highly detailed "New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining" would have been of immediate value to the public, who were focused with intense interest on the war breaking out on the Texas-Mexico border. It depicts the western portion of the United States to the Pacific, with Indian Territory, Missouri Territory, Iowa, and portions of the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Wisconsin, as well as northern Mexico and part of British Columbia, illustrating in detail the trans-Mississippi region

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