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Controlling the West | Imagining the West | Exploring the West | Settling the West | Mining the West | Traveling the West

Controlling the West

A. J. Johnson and D. Griffing Johnson
Johnson's New Illustrated & Embellished County Map of the Republics of North America with the Adjacent Islands & Countries
New York: Johnson and Browning, 1859
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Imagining the West

Carl Emil Doepler
Frontispiece in: Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas
New York: Johnson and Ward, 1863
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Mitchell
A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America London: John Mitchell, 1755
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection 484

[Sebastian Münster]
Tabula Nouarum Insularum . . . Occidentales & Indianas Uocant [Map of the New Islands . . . Called Western and Indian]
[Basel: Henricum Petrum, 1540]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection 766

John Speed
America
London, 1626
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
John H. Levine Bequest 97-7386

Willem Blaeu
Terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula [Geography of the World and Map of the Seas]
Amsterdam, [1635?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection 1001

Rumold Mercator
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio [A Compact Representation of the World]
[Amsterdam, 1637?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
John H. Levine Bequest 97-7397

John Green, pseud. Braddock Mead
Chart, containing the Coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian Discoveries to the North . . .
London: Robert Sayer and Thomas Jefferys, 177-?
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Green, pseud. Braddock Mead
Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish Settlements in North America . . .
London: Robert Sayer and Thomas Jefferys, 177-?
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Leonhard Von Euler
Tabula Geographica Partis Septentrionalis Maris Pacifici cum Adiacentibus Regioni . . . [Map of the Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean with Adjacent Regions]
[Paris, 1760?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
Mercator Fund

Nicholas Sanson
Audience de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. [Jurisdiction of Guadalajara, New Mexico, California, &c.]
[Paris], 1657
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Isaak Tirion
Kaart van het Westelyk Gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California [Map of the Western Part of New Mexico and California]
Amsterdam, 1765
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Louis Brion de la Tour
"Nouveau Mexique, Louisiane, Canada, et les Etats Unis" [New Mexico, Louisiana, Canada, and the United States]
From: Geographie Moderne Historique et Politique [Modern Historical and Political Geography]
Paris: [Louis Charles] Desnos, 1786
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Thomas Kitchen
North America Drawn from the Latest and Best Authorities
London: J[ohn] Harrison, 1787
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Melish
Map of the United States with the Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions
Philadelphia, 1816
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Anthony Finley
"Map of North America including all the recent Geographical Discoveries"
In: A New American Atlas . . .
Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1826
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Arrowsmith
"British North America, By Permission Dedicated to The Hon'ble Hudsons Bay Company, Containing the latest information which their documents furnish"
In: The London Atlas of Universal Geography . . .
London: J. Arrowsmith, 1840
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Guillaume de L'Isle
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi [Map of Louisiana and the Course of the Mississippi]
Amsterdam: Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, [1718-30]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection 453

Exploring the West

Henry Roberts
Chart of the N.W. Coast of America and the N.E. Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 and 1779
London: William Faden, 1794
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
John H. Levine Bequest 96-7712

Washington Hood
Map of the United States Territory of Oregon West of the Rocky Mountains
Washington, D.C., 1838
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Reproduction of:
Samuel Lewis
A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track across the Western Portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1814; facsimile reprint, Portland?: Oregon Historical Society, [196-]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Stephen H. Long
"Geographical, Statistical and Historical Map of Arkansas Territory"
In: A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas, Being a Guide to the History of North and South America, and the West Indies . . .
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1822
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Meriwether Lewis
The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke [sic], from St. Louis, by Way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean; Performed in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

Zebulon Montgomery Pike
An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of Louisiana . . . in 1805, 1806, 1807 . . .
Philadelphia: C. & A. Conrad & Co., 1810
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

[James Cook, et al.]
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean . . . Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, vol. 1
Philadelphia: Robert Desilver, 1818
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

Reproduction of:
[William Clark]
A Map of Part of the Continent of North America . . . compiled from the information of the best informed travellers through that quarter of the globe in which the Missouri, Jefferson, Lewis and the upper part of Clark's river and the lower part of the Columbia River is partially connected by celestial observation from the Junction of the Missouri and Mississippi to the entrance of the Columbia into the Pacific Ocean . . .
Meriden, Conn.: Meriden Gravure Company, n.d.
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Mathew Carey
"A New and Accurate Map of North America"
From: Carey's General Atlas
Philadelphia, 1814
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Mathew Carey
"Map of Missouri Territory formerly Louisiana"
From: Carey's General Atlas
Philadelphia, 1814
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Melish
United States of America compiled from latest and best authorities . . .
Philadelphia, 1818
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

David H. Burr
Map of the United States of North America
[Washington, D.C.?], 1839
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Aaron Arrowsmith
A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America
London: J[ohn] Arrowsmith, 1795, updated to 1839
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

J[ohn] Arrowsmith
British North America
London: John Arrowsmith, 1842
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Joseph N. Nicollet and John Charles Frémont
Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River
Washington, D.C., 1842
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Charles Frémont
Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Topographical Engineers, 1844[?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Charles Frémont
"Devil's Gate"
In: Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, on the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Senate, 1843
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

Alfred Krausse
"Alexander von Humboldt im 27. Lebensjahre (1796)" [Alexander von Humboldt at 27]
In: Alexander von Humboldt, vol. 1, edited by Karl Bruhns
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1872
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

"Chimney Rock"
In: Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44, by John Charles Frémont
Washington, D.C., 1845
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

G. K. Warren
Map of Routes for a Pacific Railroad
New York, 1855, rev. 1857
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Samuel Hollyer
"Jefferson Davis, Aged 32"
In: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, vol. 1, by Jefferson Davis
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

J. William Jones
The Davis Memorial Volume; or Our Dead [Confederate] President, Jefferson Davis, and the World's Tribute to His Memory
Richmond, Va.: B. F. Johnson & Co., 1890
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

William H. Emory
Military Reconoissance [sic] of the Arkansas, Rio del Norte and Gila Rivers
Washington, D.C., 1847
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

United States. Topographical Engineers
Map of the United States and Their Territories between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean; and of Part of Mexico
[Washington, D.C.], 1850
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Arthur Schott
"61. View from Iron Monument No. II near the edge of the Colorado Desert looking East towards Monument IV," and "62. View from Iron Monument No. II, looking south west toward the Cordilleras of Lower California"
In: Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, vol. 1, by Major William H. Emory
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1857
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

Josiah Gregg
Commerce of the Prairies or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies . . ., vol. 1
Philadelphia: J. W. Moore, 1851
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

E. Didier and A. L. Dick
"Arrival of Caravan at Santa Fe"
In: Commerce of the Prairies or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies . . ., vol. 1, by Josiah Gregg
New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1845
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

William P. Blake
Geological Section from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean along and near the Route Explored by Lieut. A. W. Whipple
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, 1854[?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

William P. Blake
Geological Section from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . . . prepared to accompany the preliminary report by Mr. Jules Marcou
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, 1854[?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

William P. Blake
Geological Map of the Route Explored by Lieut. A. W. Whipple . . . from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, 1854[?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John M. Bigelow
"Botanical Profile Representing the Forest Trees . . . from Fort Smith [Arkansas] to San Pedro [California]"
From: Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4, Vol. IV
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, 1854[?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Anonymous engraver after F.O.C. Darley
"Surveyors"
Steel-engraved bank note design
N.p.: Toppan, Carpenter & Co., n.d.
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection

"Insects" (plate I) in: "Report upon the insects . . .," by John T. Leconte
In: Isaac Stevens, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-5, Vol. XII, Book 2
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1860
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

Amiel Weeks Whipple, et al.
"Report upon the Indian Tribes"
In: Amiel Weeks Whipple, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-4, Vol. III
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1856
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

"Manzanita" (Botany Plate III) in: "Report upon the Botany of the Route," by J. S. Newberry
In: Henry L. Abbot, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1854-5, Vol. VI
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1857
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

J. M. Bigelow
"General Description of the Botanical Character of the Country"
In: Amiel Weeks Whipple, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-4, Vol. IV
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1856
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

Jefferson Davis
"Instructions from the War Department"
In: Henry L. Abbot, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1854-5, Vol. VI
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1857
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

"Western Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo Elegans, Cassin)" (Birds Plate III) In: "Report upon Birds Collected on the Survey," by A. L. Heermann
In: E. G. Beckwith, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-6, Vol. X, Part 2
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1854 [i.e., 1859]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

"Sky Lark (Eremophila Cornuta)" and "Arctic Bluebird (Sialia Arctica)" (Birds Plates XXXII and XXXV) in: "Report of Birds Collected on the Survey," by S. F. Baird
In: Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-6, Vol. X
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1859
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

Clarence King
"Map IV, Nevada Plateau"
From: Geological and Topographical Atlas Accompanying the Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Topographical Engineers, 1876
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Mix Stanley
"Herd of Bison near Lake Jessie [North Dakota]" in: "Narrative of 1853"
In: Isaac Stevens, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-5, Vol. XII, Book 1
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1860
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

"Crow (Carnus carnivorus)" (Birds Plate XXI) In: "Report upon the Birds Collected in the Survey," by J. G. Cooper
In: Isaac Stevens, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-5, Vol. XII, Part 2
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1860
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

Amiel Weeks Whipple
Route near the 35th Parallel Map No. 2. From the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, 1854
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

James Hall and J. P. Lesley, compilers
Map Illustrating the General Geological Features of the Country West of the Mississippi River
[Washington, D.C., 1858?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

G. K. Warren
Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Topographical Engineers, 1857
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

G. K. Warren
Reconnoissances [sic] in the Dacota Country
[Washington, D.C.]: Topographical Engineers, U.S. Army, 1857
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

G. K. Warren
"Memoir to Accompany the Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean"
In: G. K. Warren, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-6, Vol. XI
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1855 [i.e., 1859]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

Frederick Von Egloffstein
Rio Colorado of the West - map no. 1
[Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. War Department, 1858
Private Collection

Frederick Von Egloffstein
Rio Colorado of the West - map no. 2
[Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. War Department, 1858
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Frederick Von Egloffstein
"Northern Slopes of the Sierra Nevada" In: "Topographical Maps, Profiles, and Sketches to Illustrate the Various Reports of Surveys . . ."
In: G. K. Warren, Reports of Explorations and Surveys . . . in 1853-56, Vol. XI
Washington. D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1861
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

Frederick Von Egloffstein
"Big Cañon at Mouth of Diamond River"
In: Joseph Christmas Ives, Report upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 . . .
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Engineer Bureau, 1861
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

Frederick Von Egloffstein
"Black Cañon"
From: Joseph Christmas Ives, Report upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 . . .
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Engineer Bureau, 1861
Private Collection

[Frederick S. Dellenbaugh]
["Arizona"]
N.p., [1873]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Gustavus R. Bechler, chief topographer
Map of the Sources of the Snake River [Idaho]
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, [1876?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Timothy H. O'Sullivan
"Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest; South Side of Inscription Rock, N.M., No. 3"
Photograph from: Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1873
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

Timothy H. O'Sullivan
"Black Cañon, Colorado River, Looking Below, Near Camp 7"
Photograph from: Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1871
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

Timothy H. O'Sullivan
"Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M., in a Niche 50 Feet Above Present Cañon Bed"
Photograph from: Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1873
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

William H. Bell
"Grand Cañon of the Colorado, Mouth of the Kanab Wash, Looking West"
Photograph from: Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian
Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1872
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

William H. Holmes
". . . Panoramic Views: The Pike's Peak Group . . .; View of the Sawatch Range . . .; Central Portion of the Elk Mountains . . . 1873, 1874"
In: Ferdinand V. Hayden, Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado and Portions of Adjacent Territory
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1877
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

William H. Holmes
"Panorama from Point Sublime, Part I, Looking East, . . . Atlas Sheet XV"
From: Clarence E. Dutton, Atlas to accompany the monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey, 1882
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division
Mercator Society Fund 00-7449

George M. Wheeler
Title page from: Topographical Atlas Projected to Illustrate United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian of Longitude . . .
[Washington, D.C.]: Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1876
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

George M. Wheeler
"Part of Central Colorado. Atlas Sheet No. 53 (C)"
From: Topographical Atlas Projected to Illustrate United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian of Longitude . . .
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, 1877
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

George M. Wheeler
"Progress Map of Lines and Areas of Explorations and Surveys Conducted under the Auspices of the War Department Giving the Area of the Public Domain Lying West of the 100th Meridian of Longitude . . ."
From: Topographical Atlas Projected to Illustrate United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian of Longitude
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, [1873 or later]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

George M. Wheeler
"Restored Outline of Lake Bonneville"
From: Topographical Atlas Projected to Illustrate United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian of Longitude
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, [1873 or later]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Settling the West

Harry King
United States and Territories
Baltimore: U.S. General Land Office, 1898
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Theodore Franks
Map of the United States and Territories
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. General Land Office, 1866
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Paul Brodie
Map Showing the Location of the Indian Reservations within the Limits of the United States and Territories
Washington, D.C.: Office of Indian Affairs, 1885
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Roger Jones
Map Showing the Lands Assigned to Emigrant Indians West of the Arkansas & Missouri
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Topographical Bureau, 1836
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Mathew Carey
"The Seven Ranges of Townships"
From: his General Atlas
Philadelphia, 1814
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

James Truslow Adams, Editor in Chief
Atlas of American History
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Colton's New Sectional Map of the State of Kansas
New York: G. W. and C. B. Colton & Co., 1868
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John P. Edwards
Historical Atlas of Sedgwick County Kansas
Philadelphia: John P. Edwards, 1882
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

George A. Ogle & Company
"Part of the City of Topeka and Environs"
In: Standard Atlas of Shawnee County Kansas
Chicago, 1898
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

[Anthony Finley]
"Map of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas compiled from the Latest Authorities"
From: [New American Atlas]
[Philadelphia, 1826?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

[United States and Territories]
Philadelphia: P. S. Duval Steam Lithographic Press, [1850]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

J. H. Fischer
Map of the City of St. Louis Mo.
St. Louis: J. H. Fischer, 1861
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

W. G. Lyford
The Western Address Directory: Containing the Cards of Merchants, Manufacturers, and Other Business Men . . . Together with . . . Sketches . . . of Those Cities, and Towns in the Mississippi Valley
Baltimore: Jos. Robinson, 1837
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

Dakota Territory. Department of Immigration and Statistics
Official Map of the Territory of Dakota
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1887
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

A. von Haake
Post Route Map of the States of Kansas and Nebraska
[Washington, D.C.]: Post Office Department, 1900
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Ferdinand V. Hayden
Economic Map of Colorado
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of the Interior, [1877]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Carson, Hurst & Harper
Guide Map to Denver
Denver, 1892
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

H. C. Townsend
A Correct Map of the Oklahoma Country and Cherokee Outlet
[St. Louis, 1889]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

M. von Mittendorfer
A. R. Roessler's Latest Map of the State of Texas
New York.: A. R. Roessler, 1874
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

H. Huntington, Jr.
Map of Texas
Hartford, Conn., [1837]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

William Raymond Morley
Morley's Map of New Mexico
Cimarron, N.M.: Harry Whigham & G. A. Bushnell, 1873
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

C. Roeser
Territory of Idaho
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. General Land Office, 1879
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Henry Cuthbert Tunison
"Tunison's Wyoming and Eastern Montana"
From: [World Atlas]
[New York, 188-?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

S. Augustus Mitchell
"No. 15 Map of Oregon and Upper California"
From: School and Family Geography
Philadelphia[?], 1846
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John Charles Frémont and Charles Preuss
Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon . . . Wallah-Wallah in the Columbia . . .
Baltimore: E. Weber & Co., 1846
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Robert A. Habersham
The Weekly Oregonian Map of Oregon & Washington
Chicago: L. M. Snyder & Co., 1881
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Henry S. Tanner
A Map of the United States of Mexico
Philadelphia, 1846, c1832
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Vincent
Map of the State of California
[San Francisco?, 1860]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Snow & Roos
Birds Eye View of the City of San Francisco
San Francisco, 1868
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Julius H. von Schmidt, Arthur W. Keddie, and Charles Drayton Gibbes
Map of the States of California and Nevada
San Francisco: Warren Holt, [1869?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

California. Board of Commissioners on Irrigation
Map of the San Joaquin, Sacramento and Tulare Valleys State of California
[Washington, D.C.]: Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1873
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

E. McD. Johnstone
The Unique Map of California
[San Francisco?]: Southern Pacific Company and the State Board of Trade of California, [1890]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Mining the West

Charles Preuss
Map of Oregon and Upper California
Baltimore: E. Weber & Co., 1848[?]

E[dward] O. C. O[rd], Lt. U.S.A.
Topographical Sketch of the Gold & Quicksilver District of California
Philadelphia, 1848
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Positions of the Upper and Lower Gold Mines on the South Fork of the American River, California
N.p., 1848
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

J. H. Young
"A New Map of the United States of America"
In: A New Universal Atlas . . . of the World
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1854, c1850
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

[Views of San Francisco, Sutter's Mill, and Sacramento]
In: Clifford E. Trafzer and Joel R. Hyer, eds., Exterminate Them: Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape and Slavery of Native Americans During the California Gold Rush, 1848-1868
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

John Charles Frémont
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California, . . . To Which Is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California. With Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
Buffalo: Geo. H. Derby & Co., 1849
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

John Charles Frémont
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California, . . . To Which Is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California. With Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
Auburn [N.Y.?]: Derby and Miller, 1854
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

George W. Colton
Map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico, the West Indies and Central America, with part of New Granada and Venezuela
New York: J. H. Colton, 1849
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Mines of the Kansas Ridge [Colorado] Mosquito
Alma, Colo., 1879
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

"The New Empire of Western Colorado"
From: Leadville [Colo.] Herald Democrat, 1888
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

John W. Proudfit & Co.
Map of Cripple Creek [Colo.] Gold Mining District
Colorado Springs, Colo., 1895
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

"Violet's Map of the Tin Cup Mining District [Colorado]"
From: The Tin Cup Record (Virginia City, Colo.), 1882
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Edward B. Lasalle
Map of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode State of Nevada
[San Francisco?]: R. Munch Lith., 1875
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Map of the Lower Comstock and Emigrant Consolidated Mining Co.s Mines, Lyon Co. Nev[ada]
N.p., n.d.
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Rand McNally & Co.
Map of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway
Chicago, [1870]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Ross Cartee
Map of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation [Montana]
N.p.: Jos. Kipp, 1896
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

William B. Parsons
The New Gold Mines of Western Kansas and Nebraska, being a complete Description of the newly Discovered Gold Mines, the different routes, camping places, tools and outfit and containing everything important for the emigrant and miner to know
Cincinnati: Geo. S. Blanchard, 1859
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

C. A. F. Morris
Minnesota Route, the Shortest and Best to the Idaho Gold Mines
St. Paul, Minn.: D. D. Merrill, [1865]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Adam Aulbach
"Map of the Coeur d'Alene Mining Region, Shoshone County, Idaho"
From: Northwest Magazine, August 1891
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

G. E. Gascon
Alaska
Circle City, Alaska, 1897
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

United States Geological Survey
The Gold and Coal Fields of Alaska
[Washington, D.C.], 1898
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Frederick Von Egloffstein
Map of Explorations and Surveys in New Mexico and Utah
New York: Geographical Institute, 1864
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

William J. Keeler
National Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Washington, D.C.: Office of the Indian Bureau, 1867
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

R. B. Marshall
Custer Battlefield [Little Bighorn River, Mo.]
[Washington, D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey], 1908
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

William Ludlow
Map of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills
[Washington, D.C.]: Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1874
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

General G. A. Custer
Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare . . . a Graphic Acccount of his Last Fight on the Little Big Horn, as told by his wily foe, Sitting Bull . . .
Brandon, Vt.: Sidney M. Southard, 1884
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, General Research Division

Traveling the West

Johnson & Browning
Map of the United States and Mexico
New York, 1859
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

J. R. Sypher
"Historical Sketch of the United States"
In: The National Atlas
Philadelphia: O. W. Gray, 1876
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Henry S. Tanner
The Traveller's Guide. A Map of the Roads, Canals and Steam Boat Routes of the United States
Philadelphia, 1825
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

G. W. & C. B. Colton & Company
"Railroad Map of the United States," © 1869
From: Commercial Travellers Guide Book
New York: H. Dayton & Co., 1871
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Washington Hood
Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western & North-western Frontier
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Topographical Bureau, 1837[?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Charles del Vecchio
Plan of the City and Suburbs of New Orleans
New York, 1817, and New Orleans: P. Maspero, 1817
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Lieut. [John] Ross
Course of the River Mississippi from the Balise to Fort Chartres
London: Robert Sayer, 1775
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Bart. and William Bowen, pilots
Lloyd's Map of the Lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico
New York: J. T. Lloyd, 1863
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

N. H. Hutton
Map No. 1 of the El Paso & Fort Yuma Wagon Road
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1858
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Capt. R[andolph] B. Marcy
Map of the Country between the Frontiers of Arkansas and New Mexico embracing the section explored in 1849, 50, 51, & 52 . . .
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. War Department, 1852
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Hardy Gillard
Over the Pacific Railway to California
Glasgow: MacLure & MacDonald Lithographers, [1880]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Frank Glossop
"Glossop's Hotel, Amusement and Business Map"
In: Glossop's Street Guide Strangers' Directory and Hotel Manual Chicago
Chicago, 1887
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

F. Miller
Map Showing the Union Pacific Railway and Connecting Rail Roads
New York[?], [1881]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

W. J. Keeler
Map of the Routes of the Union Pacific Railroad
Washington, D.C., 1867
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Rand McNally
Official Map of the Union Pacific Railway through Kansas & Nebraska
Chicago, 1884
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Map of the Land Grant of the Kansas Pacific Railway
New York, [1868]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

United States. General Land Office
"Territory of Montana"
In: Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories of the United States of America
Washington, D.C., 1876
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

James J. O'Brien, delineator
Map of the Union Pacific Railroad and Its Connections
N.p.: Board of Directors, Union Pacific Railroad, [1865?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

George F. Cram
New and Correct Map of the Great Rock Island Route
Chicago: E. St. John, 1883
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Rand McNally
Map Exhibiting the Several Pacific Railroads
Chicago, 1883
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

United States Geographical and Geological Survey
Map of the United States Exhibiting the Grants of Lands Made by the General Government to Aid in the Construction of Railroads and Wagon Roads
[Washington, D.C.], 1878
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

[Map of the American Union Telegraph Co. lines in the United States and eastern Canada]
New York: The American Union Telegraph Co., [1874]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

H. H. Lloyd & Company
Map Showing the Telegraph Lines in Operation, under Contract, and Contemplated, to Complete the Circuit of the Globe
New York, [1867?]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

David H. Burr
The World, on Mercator's Projection . . . showing the different routes to California . . .
Boston: John Haven, 1850
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

G. Woolworth Colton
"The United States of America," © 1855
In: Colton's Atlas of the World
New York: J. H. Colton and Company, 1856
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

G. Woolworth Colton
"Colton's United States of America," © 1855
In: Colton's General Atlas
New York: J. H. Colton, 1864
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

G. Woolworth Colton
"Colton's United States of America"
In: Colton's General Atlas
New York: G. W. and C. B. Colton & Co., 1872
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Gustavus R. Bechler
Map of the Upper Geyser Basin on the Upper Madison River, Montana Terr.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey, [1876]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Thomas Cook & Son
Map of Cook's Tours in America
New York, 1882
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Yellowstone National Park
Chicago: Poole Bros., 1898
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

J. A. C.
Map of the Yellowstone National Park [Wyoming]
Fargo, N.D.: F. Jay Haynes, [ca. 1888]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Yosemite Valley [California]
San Francisco: Britton & Rey, [186-]
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

[Charles W. Dana]
The Garden of the World, or the Great West; its history, its wealth, its natural advantages, and its future. Also, comprising a complete guide to Emigrants with a full description of the different routes westward by an old settler . . .
Boston: Wentworth and Company, 1856
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

Henry Wellge
Yellowstone National Park
Milwaukee: Northern Pacific Railroad, 1904
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division