A NEW MAP OF TEXAS OREGON AND CALIFORNIA WITH THE REGIONS ADJOINING. COMPILED FROM THE MOST RECENT AUTHORITIES (1846)

Mitchell, S. Augustus

Published by S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia, PA, 1846

About this Item

Folding lithographic map, 22.75 in. x 21 in., with original color. Map is laid flat in archival plastic, and will be securely protected, and shipped in a mailing tube. Tanning to seams. Tape repairs and reinforcement on verso to all seams. Tiny losses of paper at six seam junctions. Storm 2841. Wagner-Camp 122b. This is Mitchell's third map of Oregon (the first being "Oregon and California" published in Mitchell's ;School and Family Geography;, and the second being "Mexico and Guatemala" which includes Upper or New California, New Mexico and Texas." (Wheat, Mapping The Transmississippi West 520). Carl Wheat described it as: ".a work of real importance, highly popular [and].on it the influence of the War wioth Mexico is strikingly revealed.It was among the first by a commercial cartographer to utilize the recent explorations that had bounded and determined the nature of the Great Basin. The Texas claim to a western boundary up the Rio Grande is here shown, with the northern panhandle extending all the way to the 42nd parallel.Because of its popularity, this map of the West exerted great influence, not only on the public but on other commercial cartographers." "The region covered by the map was of particular interest in 1846 because of two recent and related events. In 1845, Texas was admitted into the Union, which prompted Mexico to invade Texas in 1846, thus precipitating the U.S.-Mexican war. General curiosity about the new State of Texas and interest in the war with Mexico led to Mitchell's timely map becoming quite popular. Mitchell used the latest and best sources for the map, including Arrowsmith's 1841 map of Texas, Fremont's and Emory's maps of their explorations in the region, data from the Lewis & Clark expedition, Nicollet's map of the region between the Mississippi River and the Missouri River, Wilkes map of Oregon. Among other significant uses of the map, Brigham Young ordered 6 copies of the map and an example in the BYU collection includes an annotation placing the Mormons in Utah, pre-dating Fremont's map of 1848, which is the first printed map noting the presence of the Mormons in the Great Basin. The map shows Texas's claims to the Upper Rio Grande in present-day New Mexico -- eventually given up, as part of the Great Compromise of 1850, in exchange for the U.S. Federal Government s assumption of Texas's public debt. One of the most influential maps in Western American History." (from Stanford University Library). Seller Inventory # 87887

Bibliographic Details

Title: A NEW MAP OF TEXAS OREGON AND CALIFORNIA ...

Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia, PA

Publication Date: 1846

Binding: Map

Condition: Good Plus