Description
| Dimensions (H/W) | 41 x 67 cm |
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Preuss’s classic 7-part map of the route of Captain Fremont from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, one of the great landmarks in American cartography. Bound at right side. Some repair and restoration work has been done on this. Early tape repair marks still. This is among the cornerstone maps of the exploration period of the American West. Wheat (Transmississippi) 523 devotes considerable space discussing this map and reproducing each of its seven sections. Wheat says that this map “has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history. In particular, those interested either in Fremont’s travels of 1842-43, or in the evolution of the transcontinental wagon roads will find that the map rewards close study.”
