A new map of the state of California, the territories of Oregon & Utah, and the chief part of New Mexico, (1850)

A new map of the state of California, the territories of Oregon & Utah, and the chief part of New Mexico, (1850)

Washington (State)--Boundaries<br>Washington Territory<br>Oregon Territory--Maps<br>California--Maps<br>Utah--Maps<br>Utah Territory<br>New Mexico--Maps<br>DeSilver, Charles<br>Mitchell, S. Augustus<br>Cowperthwait, Thomas<br>

1 map: col., 44 x 35 cm<br>A hand colored map including the Oregon Territory (pink)--comprising the area that would later split into Washington Territory in 1853. The map also includes the newly formed State of California. Its population boomed following the discovery of gold in 1848 and the rush of 49ers into the area the next year. Note also Utah Territory (green). Worried by the streaming mass of miners coming into the area in 1849, the Mormons invited Europeans interested in their faith(particularly from England) to come and populate Utah.<br>This map, published by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., may be from an atlas set contracted to him by S. Augustus Mitchell. Cowperthwait began publishing Mitchell's New Universal Atlas in 1850, printing the atlas until 1856. (At that time it was taken over by another well-known mapmaker, Charles DeSilver.) Cowperthwait continued to use Mitchell maps in various forms well into the 1880s.<br>

Thomas Cowperthwait & Co.

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Pennsylvania : Thomas Cowperthwait & Co.

1850

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Washington
California
Oregon
Utah
New Mexico