Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-18

How the G-ograph"rs riyided the United
States Sixty-fivr Years Ago.

How the GrOgraphCrS liNtded the United
States SixtN-fivr Years Ago.
A great deal h,,s lccn written lately
about oil map, OF Iowa and the North
west, and the inter- st III the matter has
caused the digging up of time sta ned
documents in the hope of finding some
tuing Just little oloer than is possessed
bv any one e,se \ lady of Sioux Guy
has a map of the United States that was
among the effects IpfU her by her father.
1t was printed III 1926, and it is i'll a very
fair state of preservation. 1t is II 10y
81! inches in size, and folds up like an
ordinary pocket map of to-day, and is
inclo-ed in pasteboard covers. The in
formation is given on one corner that 1t
was drawn from the most approved
surveys, and published by solomon
Schoyer, New York. 1t was engraved
by G. w. Merchant of Albany.
The country east of the Mississippi
River is divided as now, except there is
no State of West Virginia, the territory
that now constitutes the present States
being all under the one State govern
ment. That section north of Illinois
and between the Mississippi and the
Lakes is known as the Northwest Terri
tory and embraces all of the present
State of Wisconsin and that part of
Minnesota east Of the Mississippi In all
this Territory not single town Is shown
At the Falls of St Anthony, about where
st. Paul is loo led. there is a United
States fort, and Fort Crawford is shown
about the present location of Prairie du
CHEN. Fort Brown is on the map at
the southern end of Green Bay, on Lake
Michigan.
West of the Mississippi only four divi-
sions are shown, and they are Missouri,
Louisiana, Arkansas Territory, and Mis-
souri, Territory. The latter takes in all
the territory north and west of the pres
ent State of Missouri, extending to the
Pacific coast on the west and to the Brit
ish line on the north. Mexico extends
up along the Pacific coast to the south
boundary of the present State of Oregon,
taking in all of Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona, Utah, Ne, ada, and California.
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas the Dakotas,
and all the country west is set down as
Missouri Territory. Council Bluffs is
Ule only place Scu uON Ill uS lilS loS1tuioii
of a town in all this vast region, and it is
located on the west bank of the Mis-
souri,, while Fort Calhoun is on the east
bank
The habitations of the various Indian
tribes are mixed, the southern part of
Iowa being given up to the laways, as
the name of the tribe was then spelled.
The Sioux occupied all the country north
of Dubuque up to st. Paul, and then the
Shoshone country was struck. An In
dian village known as Omahawvllle is
marked on the map on the west bank of
the Missouri, a short distance below the
present site of Sioux City, at about where
the Omaha reservation is now. Punk
AWHILE is marked on the west bank of
the Missouri, about midway between the
White River and the Running Water.
All the vast stretch of country to the
northwest is dreary waste.
East of the Mississippi the Kickapoos
and the Pottawattamies are located in
northern Illinois and extending well
over into Indiana. Illinois has number
of towns marked, among them being
Vandalia, Springfield, Edwardsville,
Koskoskia, and Shawneetown. Chicago
was not there, and its present location
was not even marked. In Missouri
there were a number of towns, St. Louis,
ST. Charles, and Jefferson City being the
most prominently marked in black type.
-[St. Louis Republic.