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English: A New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with the——Regions Adjoining |
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DescriptionMitchell A New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California 1846 UTA.jpg |
English: Published just before the "War with Mexico," Mitchell's map embodies the theme of the United States' drive——to "fulfill its manifest destiny——to overspread the continent." It shows the recently annexed former Republic of Texas in its largest territorial form, including its farthest claims into present New Mexico. And Colorado. Looming large in pale yellow is the vast Oregon Territory — until only recently jointly administered by, the U.S. and Great Britain and stretching up to the 54º 40' parallel of North latitude. For this area, the map largely followed the printed map of Oregon from the report of Charles Wilkes's expedition. The large pink area labeled "Upper/New California" includes the Mexican territories of Upper California and New Mexico – both of which were soon seized by U.S. forces. This section derived in part from U.S. Army Topographical Engineer Lieutenant William H. Emory's Map of Texas and the Country Adjacent… of 1844, which was a compilation of the best information on what became the American Southwest available in Washington, D.C., before the war with Mexico. It also included up-to-date information obtained by another U.S. Army Topographical Engineer, Lieutenant John C. Fremont, who had first concluded that the continent's interior included a "Great Basin." Mitchell's map calls it "Great Interior Basin of California" where "streams and rivers…have no outlet to the sea." Among the featured trails are the "Oregon route" (with a table inset at lower left of the "Emigrant Route from Missouri to Oregon" giving mileage details), Fremont's alternate route to St. Vrain's Fort near Long's Peak in the Rockies, the "Caravan route to Santa Fe" and beyond this, a route to California by way of "Vegas" and the "Mojave R." leading to the "Great Spanish Trail" from "P. Angeles" to Santa Fe. In the Texas area the map includes old Spanish roads from Louisiana stretching to the Rio Grande and "into Coahuila and Tamaulipas," newer roads connecting the rapidly developing multi-colored counties and the old Camino Real. Or Chihuahua Trail leading south from Santa Fe (in Texas!) along the Rio Grande past "Passo del Norte" to Chihuahua. In far northern Oregon the map traces part of "Mackenzie's route" while further south leading through western Oregon from the "Great Falls" and upper reaches of the Missouri River in "Missouri Territory" is "Lewis and Clark's route" to the Columbia River. With all this information, it is not surprising that Mitchell's commercial map was widely used – Mormon leader Brigham Young ordered six copies for his western migration in the winter of 1846. The map also served as an inset in Mitchell’s Reference and Distance Map of the United States. |
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections |
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United States of America Mexico |
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Place of publication | Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 56 cm (22 in); width: 52.5 cm (20.6 in) dimensions QS:P2048,56U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,52.5U174728 |
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colored engraving on paper colored lithograph on paper |
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Huseman, Ben W. (2018) Paths to Highways: Routes of Exploration, Commerce, and Settlement, Arlington: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, no. 44 , p. 28 Huseman, Ben W. (2008) Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict in Maps, 1800-1900, Arlington: The University of Texas at Arlington, no. 17 , p. 21 Cohen, Paul E. , ed. (2002) Mapping the West: America’s Westward Movement, New York City: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., pp. 134–135 Wheat, Carl I. (1957–1963) Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West, 3, San Francisco: The Institute of Historical Cartography, no. 520 , pp. 35, 253–254 Francaviglia, Richard (2005) Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History, Reno: University of Nevada Press, pp. 88–89 Tyner, Judith A. (1999) "Map 25" in Heckrotte, Warren, and Julie Sweetkind , ed. California 49: Forty-Nine Maps of California from the Sixteenth Century to the Present, San Francisco: California Map Society Occasional Paper No.6 with The Book Club of California, pp. 50–51 Goetzmann, William H. (1959) Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863, New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 130 |
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