|
|
Collection Gallery 6:
Improved instruments and time-keeping devices, combined with the belief that there were major westward-flowing rivers (the River of the West or the River Oregon, and Columbia’s River), inspired many, including particularly Thomas Jefferson as president, to contemplate an overland expedition to the Pacific Ocean.
Click here for more background on this gallery.
Click on any of the thumbnail images of the maps below for a close up view and a written history/description of each. Each enlarged image page also offers you the option to click an arrow to move forward or back through the maps, without returning to this page.
Two of the maps in this gallery include "audio tours" (mp3), featuring collection owner Henry Wendt describing the significance and history of the particular map.
|
|
|
|
Jonathan Carver
A Plan of Captain Carvers Travels in the Interior Parts of North America in 1766 and 1767
London, 1788
(Copperplate Engraving)
Audio Tour
|
|
Jonathan Carver
A New Map of North America from the Latest Discoveries 1778
London, 1778
(Copperplate Engraving)
|
|
Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, ...
by Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Philadelphia, 1802
(Leatherbound Book)
Audio Tour
|
Alexander Mackenzie
A Map of America, from Latitudes 40 and 70 North, and Longitudes 45 and 180 West, exhibiting Mackenzie's Track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan & from thence to the North Sea in 1789 and to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793 London, 1801
(Copperplate Engraving)
|
|
Alexander Mackenzie
A Map of Mackenzie's Track from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean in 1793
London, 1801
(Copperplate Engraving)
|
|
Click on any of the map images for larger views and a written description of each.
|
Back to main gallery page
|
|
|
