The Neutral Lands and the Race To Construct Railroad Lines from Northern Kansas to Indian Territory Unrecorded railroad map of Texas, the Southern and Mdiwestern States, published by the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad and the...
An Extremely Rare German Emigrant Guide to California, Oregon, Texas, Iowa and the Midwest -- Especially So With All Maps & Plans Second extended German edition, adding the view of St. Louis and with the often missing maps of Iowa and the United...
Important Early Mapping of the Missouri River, Upper Mississippi and Indian Regions Remarkable map of the central part of the Mississippi Valley and Lower MIssouri River Valley, only a few years after Missouri gained its statehood. The detail along...
Early Antique Map of Iowa Territory and Wisconsin Territory Important early map of part of Iowa and Wisconsin, with large inset showing all of Iowa Territory and Wisconsin Territory extending to the Canadian Border. Iowa Territory was organized in...
A Wisconsin Railroad That Never Was Rare map of the railroad lines of the Racine, Janesville & Mississippi Railroad, published in Racine with the first annual report of the Racine, Janesville & Mississippi Railroad. The map shows the area...
Rare historical / pictorial map of the Mormon Route from Navoo to Salt Lake, drawn by Robert A. Hanson. The map was likely published by the Western Cover Society, a California based society which published the Western Express. Hanson's maps were...
A Foundational Wisconsin Map. This is an important early map of Wisconsin, published only two years after the territory was incorporated. The map centers on the areas now part of southwestern Wisconsin and eastern Iowa. In this area, the most...
The Iowa-Missouri Boundary Dispute Detailed map illustrating the boundary dispute between Missouri and Iowa, drawn by George A. Leakin, accompanied by the report to the House of Representatives dated December 31, 1842, regarding the Northern Boundary...
Finely detailed map of the section of the Mississippi River, showing the Des Moines Rapids in the area of Fort Des Moines, based upon the surveys of Lieutenant Robert E. Lee of the US Corps of Engineers. The Des Moines Rapids was one of two major...
Rare early map of the surveyed portions of Iowa, from an early example of Morse's Cerographic Atlas of the United States. Includes a number of counties, towns, rivers, etc. The map shows the settled portions of Iowa Territory, four years after it...
Nice example of the 1853 public survey map of Iowa prepared by Warner Lewis, Surveyor General of Iowa. The map shows the progress of township and baseline surveys in Iowa. The northern part of the state is still largely unsurveyed, as is a section...
A Stunning Early Map of Iowa Fine early map of Iowa during its initial period of rapid settlement, showing the land office locations, a table of population by county in 1840 and 1850, and the settled areas of adjoining states. Rare first...
Rare separately issued map of Iowa, published in Kiel in a promotional tract, Der Staat Iowa geographisch und statistisch beschrieben von Theodor Olshausen in St. Louis in Staate Missouri . . ., published in 1855. Olshausen is also known to have...
Nice example of the second state of Henn, Williams & Co.'s large format map of Iowa. The evolution of the Henn, Williams & Co. map of Iowa over the first 3 years of its publication provides a remarkable visual depiction of the rapid growth of...
Scarce early separately issued map of Iowa, pre-dating the first edition Colton's atlas map of Iowa. An attractive and detailed map of Iowa with an ornate border. It is colored by counties and shows cities, towns, railroads, rivers, and lakes.
The First Commercially Published Geological Map of Iowa A fine large format map of Iowa, published by Nathan H. Parker in Clinton, Iowa and printed by J. H. Colton in New York and Keen & Lee in Chicago. This is one of the earliest appearances of...