"Countries Bordering on the Mississippi and Missouri", Schoolcraft, H.

This rarity is an early map detailing the Southeast up to Lake Erie and west to San Antonio. The boundaries and internal political divisions of Arkansas and Missouri are unique to this map. Their western boundary is defined by the "Osage Boundary" shown at 94°W longitude. Arkansas contains two districts, namely Arkansas and Lawrence, and Missouri contains Cape Girardeau, St. Louis and Howard districts. To the west is an immense Missouri Territory which in turn incorporates a large but ill-defined Dewalieierres Grant with no mention of Texas or Cenis. Chicago is on the shore of Lake Michigan in Illinois Territory, but is shown many miles south of its correct position. The "Extended [Indian] Boundary by various Treaties" wanders through Indiana and Ohio and is loosely associated with the north-south Osage Boundary. In the area of Texas, the outward and homeward routes for Pike's expedition are delineated, many forts are named, and the Haywa Wanderings and the Haytones Wandering Grounds are located. Early wagon roads and trails noted, as are early towns and cities as far north as Cleveland. The map is bound it the original "Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansas, from Potosi, or Mine a Burton, in Missouri Territory, in a South-West Direction, toward the Rocky Mountains; Performed in the years 1818 and 1819" by Henry R. Schoolcraft, Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., London. This is Schoolcraft's log detailing his remarkable 90-day expedition. Later gray paper covered boards, octavo, 102 pp and large folding engraved map.

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Condition: B

The map is mostly clear with just a few scattered foxing marks. A long tear at binding trim extends through map to upper margins, well closed on verso.