[MAP] Johnson's Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho and Montana

Published by Johnson and Ward, New York, 1865

Large double-plate hand-colored map, 46 x 67.5 cm (18 x 26 3/4 inches), clean, suitable for framing. There are some edge-tears in the margins, which will be covered with a mat when you have it framed. Will ship folded at center, as found. Removed from a bound volume, Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas. This Western map has a printed copyright date of 1865. These future States were all territories in 1865, with Idaho Territory being only two years old in 1865. The Dakota Territory is one entity here, not yet split into North and South. The only territory having any separate counties in Nebraska, with counties marked out in its southern and eastern borders. An "Emigrant Route" is marked out, as well as then-current and proposed railroad lines, and the Pony Express mail routes. The lands of many Indian tribes are identified, such as the Banacks, Mountain Snakes, Shosones, Blackfeet, Assiniboins, Itazipchos, Sihasapa Dakotas, Sioux, etc., etc. Forts Benton, Union, Grattan, Randall, George, Abercrombie, Piney, Bonneville, and many others, dot the map along trails and rivers. This map was published 11 years before the Battle of Little Bighorn and the massacre at "Custer's Last Stand."Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884), b. Wallingford, Vermont; school teacher, for some years a book and map seller for J. H. Colton and Co. After some efforts at publishing his own maps, Johnson found success with his Family Atlas, publishing them in Richmond, Virginia and in New York City beginning in 1860. He and his partner Ross C. Browning (1822-1899) evidently purchased rights to Colton's maps, as they appear in the first Johnson's Family Atlas. Johnson updated his maps as cartography became more accurate, and Atlases during the 1860's were bound with maps bearing various dates until that particular map was updated. Johnson and Browning maps were published 1860-1862; Johnson and Ward were years 1862-1866; maps published by A. J. Johnson, A. J. Johnson and Son, A. J. Johnson & Co., date from 1866-1887.Johnson's hand-colored maps are known for their accuracy to detail and are an important record of internal improvements and westward expansion. All are suitable for framing and valued by collectors. Seller Inventory # 10367

Bibliographic Details

Title: [MAP] Johnson's Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho and ...
Publisher: Johnson and Ward, New York
Publication Date: 1865
Binding: Engraving
Condition: Good