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Author
[Raynolds,W.F., Maynadier, H.E., Gillespie,G.]
Note
Western sheet only of 2 sheet map titled "Map Of The Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers and Their Tributaries..." (see our #834). The date has been trimmed from the title in the lower left. An owner has backed the map with linen, folded it into dark reddish brown covers 15.5x10 of a commercial map publisher, J.L. Smith, and placed a hand written label "Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers" on the front cover. An asterisk in ms marks the location of the Republic Mine east of Yellowstone Park.
Author
Freyhold, Edward; Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, 1830-1882; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Note
5 original sheets of 6, with the title sheet No. 6 (southeast corner) is photocopy. Each sheet is dissected into 24 sections and backed with linen. Wheat: "a complex map very different in aspect from that of 1868, yet no less beautiful, and employing the new information that had reached the War Department during the 1870's." It is a complete redrawing of the Freyhold/Warren map of 1868, larger in scale, and so dense in information that the itineraries are no longer shown. There is an inset of Alaska in the lower right. This copy belonged to James Douglas, the founder of the Phelps Dodge mining empire in Arizona and for whom Douglas, Arizona, was named. In the same year the Army issued somewhat larger versions of this map on thin paper for field use, one example being the Map of California and Nevada with Parts of Utah & Arizona (see our #3360). Each sheet folds with a marbled end paper into brown cloth covers 21.5x12.5 ; the sheet no. and region shown in each map is written in ms on the inside covers, alongside bookplates reading "Jamais Arriere. Ex Libris James Douglas. History Science Literature Theology ..." The photocopy of sheet 6 folds into new brown cloth covers very similar to the original covers. All six maps reside in a new brown cloth slip case 22.5x13.5 with a black label on spine reading "Territory of the U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Edward Freyhold. 1879" in gilt. With outline color by state; water in full color.
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