An Interesting Part of U.P.R.R. Advertising and Mapmaking History. This is a circa 1946 manuscript proof for a print advertisement promoting Union Pacific rail service from Chicago, Illinois to Denver, Colorado on the Union Pacific Streamliner 'City...
Detailed map of Texas, Upper California, the Plains and Mexico, published in Paris. The map prominently shows the Republic of Texas, a mythological Lake Teguayo and pre-Fremont Western United States. Western border of Texas includes an odd eastern...
A German Map of the Republic of Texas Detailed map of the Republic of Texas at the start of the Mexican War. The massive stovepipe configuration is shown here, extending to Wyoming in the north, the Rio Grande in the west and the Red River and...
Including Manuscript Additions of the Overland Route To California and Other Important Points. Nice example of Mitchell's seminal map of Texas, Oregon, Upper California, Missouri Territory and a massive Indian Territory (covering most of Kansas and...
Excellent map of California, Mexico, Texas and the Southwest, published by A&C Black. The map covers all of Upper California and shows the missions, early forts and information immediately prior to the discovery of gold. Several settlement and...
Emory's Map of the Transmississippi West. Marvelously detailed map of the Western Territorial US, published by W.H. Emory in his Report of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. The map is one of the fundamental post-Gadsden Purchase maps of...
1875 Edition of Warren's Pivotal Map of the American Plains -- Early Reference To the Colorado / Kansas Gold Regions 1875 edition of Gouverneur Kemble Warren's large format map of Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and part Colorado and Wyoming, based upon...
Decorative map of the route of the Central Pacific from the midwest to San Francisco, illustrated with 24 images of the west, primarily of California and Nevada. Decorative and highly detailed map, with vignettes of major points of interest in the...
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...
The First American Atlas Map of the Transmississippi West -- Based Upon Lewis & Clark's Reports Nice example of Mathew Carey's highly important map of Missouri Territory. Published shortly after the return of Lewis & Clark, Mathew Carey's...
Antique Map of the Plains and Indian Territory, Extending the Rocky Mountains Rare and important map from the 1835 Dodge-Kingsbury expedition (only 500 copies printed). The map identifies place names as far west as Santa Fe New Mexico, Pike's Peak...
First State of Colton's Map of Kanzas and Nebraska Colton's highly sought after regional map of Nebraska and Kanzas, first published in 1855. Nebraska extends to Canada and the Rockies, taking up large portions of Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Kanzas...
Rare map of the Territory of Nebraska, from Rogers & Johnston's Atlas of the United States. Rogers & Johnston's map is the only commercial atlas map to show Nebraska Territory on a single map. The map was derived from the monumental and...
Excellent early map of the regional map of the Plains and Rocky Mountains, published by S.A. Mitchell Jr. Kansas counties cover only the eastern third of the state. Nebraska counties cover only a very small fraction of the state, which stretches all...
Rare first edition of this striking large format map of the West, published by Henry T. Williams, with handwritten notes, including a note relating to the notorious stagecoach robber, Black Bart, who operated in northern California and southern Oregon...
Massive Dakota Territory -- Pre-dating Wyoming and Montana. This is the third map in the series of Johnson's maps of this region and the first to include Colorado. Kansas gives way to Colorado, Nebraska is truncated by Dakota, but still extends to...