A Map of the Indian Territory, Northern Texas, and New Mexico Showing the Great Western Prairies, 1844
Description
Josiah Gregg was the trader and writer.
From catalog info:
Indian Territory/Western United States
Josiah Gregg (1806-1850)
Scale: 1:3,500,000
Atlas plate #29 from Sidney E. Morese & Samuel Breese Cerographic Atlas of the United States, 1842, 32 maps. This map also appears in Josiah Gregg's book, Comerese of the Prairies, 1850, facing p.58.
Phillips Atlases, vol.1, p.773 (entry #1383).
Phillips Maps p.332.
Waters of Colorado and of California
A
MAP OF THE
INDIAN TERRITORY
NORTHER TEXAS
AND
NEW MEXICO
Showing the
GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES
By
JOSIAH GREGG
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breesa in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York
Note: The (?) portions are Prairie. The white Timber
Stalked Plain - Arid Table Land nearly 2000 ft. above the Streams
HUNTING GROUNDS OF THE PAWNEES, KANSAS, OTOES, AND OTHERS
Pike’s Stockade whence taken to Santafe Feb. 1807
Attacked by Pawnees
Route of Caravan from Arkansas to Chihuahua 1840
Route of Texan Santa Fe Expedition 1841
The Wacoes, Witchita’s, Towackanoes, Towyash, Keechyes, Caddoes, and Inyes reside chiefly on Red River and its branches above the Cross Timbers
Note: The tinted portions are Prairie, the white Timber
Dates
- Creation: 1844
Creator
- Gregg, Josiah, 1806–1850 (Cartographer, Person)
Access Restrictions
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Full Extent
From the Collection: 800 maps
Language of Materials
English
Spanish; Castilian
Medium
lithograph on paper
Dimensions
Overall: Length: 13 3/4 Inches, Width: 17 1/2 Inches, Inside neatline: Length: 12 5/16 Inches, Width: 14 13/ 16 Inches
Previous Number
Map 148
Cultural context
Genre / Form
- Indian reservations -- Indian reservation -- Native American reservations
- Map
- Maps and Atlases
- foxes (animals) -- fox
- lakes -- lake
- mountains -- mountain
- rivers -- river
- west
Geographic
- Arkansas (state)
- Arkansas River -- Kansas River
- Canadian River -- South Canadian River
- Cimarron River -- Big Cimarron River
- Kaw River
- Louisiana
- México -- México
- Midwest
- Missouri
- Missouri River
- Nepahalla River -- Nepaholla River -- Solomon
- North Canadian River -- Beaver River
- North Platte River
- Pacific Ocean
- Pecos River
- Red River
- Republican River
- Rocky Mountains
- Smoky Hill Fork
- Smoky Hill River
- Solomon River -- Solomons Fork -- Wisgapalla River -- Wiskapalla River
- Southwest -- The Southwest
Style / Period
- Arapaho (culture or style) -- Arapahoe
- Cherokee (culture or style) -- Keetoowah
- Cheyenne (culture or style)
- Chickasaw (culture or style) -- Chicacha
- Choctaw (culture or style)
- Delaware (culture or style) -- Lenape
- Iowa (culture or style) -- Ioway
- Kaw (culture or style) -- Kansa
- Meskwaki (culture or style) -- Fox -- Outagami
- Missouri (culture or style) -- Missouria
- Native American (culture or style) -- American Indian -- Indigenous American
- Ojibwa (culture or style) -- Chippewa -- Ojibwe
- Omaha (culture or style)
- Osage (culture or style)
- Otoe (culture or style) -- Oto
- Ottawa (culture or style)
- Pawnee (culture or style)
- Potawatomi (culture or style) -- Pottawatamie -- Pottowatomie
- Quapaw (culture or style)
- Sac (culture or style) -- Sauk
- Seminole (culture or style)
- Seneca (culture or style)
- Shawnee (culture or style)
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository