This highly detailed and beautifully engraved map is vividly colored and features inset maps of Niagara River and Falls, Havana, the Island of Cuba, and a great Map of California, Oregon, New Mexico Utah &c. The main map shows the country as far west as the Texas panhandle and the Great Plains, which is divided into two large territories: Nebraska (with no mention of Kansas and incorporating Indian Territory) and Part of the Northwest Terry. (the region of present-day North and South Dakota). There are numerous forts, railroads, trade routes and the tracks of several explorers. The inset map of the pre-Gadsden Purchase West (9.3 x 10.5") shows explorers' routes and immigrant trails, most notably the Oregon Route. The Great Basin in Utah Territory is bounded by a mountain range labeled "Dividing Range between the Waters of the Pacific and the Waters of the Great Basin." In the Northwest, Ft. Nisqually is located but Olympia and Seattle are not named. Portland is Oregon City, and Fillmore City is the capital of Utah. Also locates the Trail from Santa Fe to the Pacific and the Santa Fe Trail. Copyright dated 1851.

References: Wheat (TMW) #769 and #818.

Condition: B

Contemporary outline color with toning along the fold lines and at right where the map is still attached to the rear board. There are several archivally repaired fold separations and some small areas of loss, mostly along the left fold, that have been reinstated with image drawn in facsimile.