Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West 1540-1881

This is a reprint of the original 1957 series, hardbound on cloth. There are five volumes with 1302 maps described, and 376 maps illustrated. Wheat, the well-known California historian, has undertaken in this work nothing less than to trace the opening of the American West by studying the succession of maps which, beginning in the 1540’s, accurately trace the paths of the explorers and the record of the resulting growth of knowledge. Mr. Wheat has sought out every map, manuscript or printed, relating to the Transmississippi West before 1861, and has selected the most interesting and important. These maps cover the story of Spanish, French and English exploration. Five volumes bound in three carry the story of American cartography and exploration through the Civil War. Scholars, collectors and dealers of Western Americana should find this work an essential tool, for Mr. Wheat has produced a work of scholarship that to this day remains without rival in its field. Vol. 1: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana PurchaseVol. 2: From Lewis & Clark to FremontVol. 3: The Mexican War to the Boundary SurveyVol. 4: Pacific Railroad Surveys to the Onset of the Civil WarVol. 5: Parts I & II: Civil War to the Geological Survey

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