Maps

Title: Map of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co.
Description: Map showing Oregon and Washington and small portions of adjacent states. Also includes the southern portion of Vancouver Island, area railroad lines, steamship lines, towns, roads, and Indian reservations. Printed at top and bottom of map: "The Northwest presents the greatest opportunities for settlers of any portion of Uncle Sam's domain. For grains, grasses, fruit, live stock and minerals the territory embraced in this map is unequalled."
Date: 1880~
Object Type: Map

Title: Indian Tribes, Reservations and Settlements in the United States
Description: Map of the United States keyed to show reservations allotted in part, reservations allotted and open, and tribal lands, as well as colonies in Nevada and rancherias in California. Inset map of Alaska indicates tribal areas.
Date: 1943
Object Type: Map

Title: Northeast Corner of Kansas Territory
Description: Map showing area immediately west of the Missouri River, in present-day Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth counties, Kansas. The right-hand side of the page is north. Map shows Indian lands, including the Iowa lands, Iowa Reserve, Sac and Fox lands recently ceded, Kickapoo Reserve, and "Half Breed lands" (i.e. Indians of mixed descent). Indicates many creeks and some towns (e.g. Fort Leavenworth, Atchison, Doniphan, Saint Joseph). The agency is indicated near Wolf River. Ink on lined paper, signed by Major Daniel Vanderslice, who served as Indian Agent from 1853 until Lincoln became President in 1861.
Date: 1854
Object Type: Map

Title: U. States' Indian Frontier in 1840, Shewing [sic] Positions of the Tribes that have been removed west of the Mississippi
Description: Map of areas assigned to various tribes just west of the states of Missouri and Arkansas as of approximately 1840. Approximate locations of other tribes in the West (U.S. and a portion of Canada) are indicated. Some of the tribes named in the map are Kickapoo, Shawnee, Delaware, Peoria and Kaskaskia, Piankashaw and Wea, Oneida, Tuscarora, Quapaw, Seneca, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Osage, Arapaho, Comanche, Pawnee, Kiowa, Shoshone, Cheyenne, Crow, Dakota, Omaha and Oto, Sac and Fox.
Date: 1841
Object Type: Map

Title: MacLean and Lawrence's Sectional Map of Kansas Territory
Description: Continuation of title: Compiled from the U.S. Surveys by C. P. Wiggin.Photocopy of a map of Kansas Territory including the counties of Leavenworth, Johnson, Lykins, Franklin, Douglass, Jefferson, and Atchison. Shows Indian reservations, some towns and roads, with townships and ranges noted.
Date: 1857-04
Object Type: Map

Title: Gunn's New Map of Kansas and the Gold Mines
Description: Map of Kansas and the area to become Colorado, showing the existing counties of Kansas and Indian reservations. Includes inset "Routes from the Missouri River to the Kansas Gold Mines." Compiled from the original field notes by O. B. Gunn.
Date: 1859
Object Type: Map

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