PBA Galleries

Lithographed map, hand-colored to indicate tribal locations. 38x42.5 cm (15¼x16¾").

Important, even seminal, map of North America, presenting a fairly up-to-date picture of the far west, with information from William Ashley, Jedediah Strong Smith and others. Howes calls the map, “Best of western country up to this time” and David Rumsey comments “The map, in addition to its abundant information regarding the Indian Tribes, shows Jedediah Smith’s route of 1827 across the Great Basin, one of the earliest American maps to do so.” The map was issued in Archæologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society. Vol. II, in illustration of an article by Gallatin, “A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains, and in the British and Russian Possessions in North America”.

Provenance: J. Ptak

References: Graff 49; Howes G30; Sabin 1049; Wheat Transmississippi 417.