“A MAP OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY NORTHERN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO…” Josiah Gregg. New York: Sidney E. Morse & Samuel Breese, 1844. Original cerographic (wax engraved) map with folds as issued. Verso blank. Reference: Wheat # 482; Wagner-Camp # 108. Paper size: 13.8 x 16.5 inches – Image size: 12.6 x 13.75 inches.
Josiah Gregg's important map of Indian Territory, Northern Republic of Texas (Texas joined the US in 1845), & the Plains, from his monumental Commerce of the Prairies, one of the classic accounts of the Transmississippi West and a cornerstone work for studies of the Santa Fe Trail.
Gregg became one of the region's foremost traders. His account is the principal source book relating to the Santa Fe Trail & trade, the Indians of the south plains and New Mexico, & the Mexican period. Wheat calls this map "a cartographic landmark...[and refers to Lt. Warren’s remark as] one of the most useful maps of this region at that day."
The map carefully denotes towns, settlements, pueblos, forts, trading posts, camps, springs, rivers, creeks, and wooded areas such as the Cross Timbers, sandy regions, mountains and escarpments such as the "Wichita Mts" and the edges of the "Llano Estacado or Staked Plains". Ranges and hunting grounds of Indians such as the Comanche, Kiowa, etc. It also shows lands allotted to more agriculturally settled tribes recently removed from the east. Even lands allotted to "Half Breeds" are shown.
Condition note: Archival repair to long closed horizontal tear across ¾ of the map - virtually unnoticable from front.
Shipped unmatted
