Mapping the West : America's Westward Movement 1524-1890

By Paul Cohen

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“Compiling maps drawn from a variety of sources, this book intelligently chronicles the history of map-making in the Western U.S. The author brings together over 65 significant and often beautiful maps–many of which have never been published before–and annotates them with fascinating stories. Besides offering an index of our fluctuating ideas of geography, mineral deposits and demographic distributions over the Western states, many of these maps are a great inspiration for anybody interested in cartography.”