"Old Oregon Trail",

This map highlights the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon and outlines the numerous routes used by "explorers, trappers, missionaries, and covered wagon home-seekers" to travel west. The map was originally created in celebration of the centennial of the admission of Oregon Territory to the United States, and was published with the assistance of the Union Pacific Railroad. Notes with facts and historical events are included throughout the map, and images of settlers, Native American Indians, covered wagons, and a steamboat fill the empty spaces. A lovely vignette of Fort Laramie in Wyoming extends across the bottom of the map. Created by Irvin "Shorty" Shope (1900-1977), a native of Montana and one of the charter members of the Cowboy Artists of America. This edition does not include descriptive text below the neatline.

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Condition: B+

There is some minor scattered foxing at left and top with some small chips in the top blank margin.