Colton's Map of The United States of America, The British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies. Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. West Indies & The Caribbean relief by hachures

relief by hachures

A striking print of the West end of Madelin Pass as viewed on June 26th at 8 A

A very clean copy

Chase organized a syndicate known as La Cumbre Estates Corporation that purchased the 1

This chart shows the ridges and valleys' good inland topographical details (hachures)

Colton's Map of The United States of America, The British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies. Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. West Indies & The Caribbean relief by hachuresThis striking map is the very scarce third edition of Coltons seminal large wall map of the United States, British Provinces, Mexico, and the West Indies. Apparently, Colton was very sensitive to ongoing political processes regarding territories and boundaries and did not jump to conclusions when it came to depicting boundaries and nomenclature on his maps. This third edition is the first to show the territory of Kansas named, but it still did not