Map of the State of Missouri And Territory of Arkansas

Philadelphia, 1837. No Binding. Near Fine. 7 x 20 ½ inches. Lithograph with original wash color; fold reinforcements, else excellent. Rare, separately issued, folding map showing Missouri as a state, Arkansas as a territory, and the area of present-day Oklahoma as "Indian Territory Attached to Arkansas." This is a significantly updated edition of the map "has many changes topographically and new borders.There are many new counties in Missouri and Arkansas, and a table of Steam Boat Routes appears in the lower right corner of the map. The detail in the surrounding states is now filled in" (Rumsey). Rumsey 4102 (1836 edition); cf. Ristow, W. American Maps & Mapmakers, pp. 303-304