Record Details
Map of the Territory West of the Rocky Mountains (1837)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Map of the Territory West of the Rocky Mountains (1837) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu555 wsu 555; F592 .I708 v. 2 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,701 |
| Creator | Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. |
| Date | 1837 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Philadelphia, Carey, Lea, & Blanchard |
| Description | 1 map: 43 x 41 cm. Scale: 1 inch = 50 miles. Captain Benjamin Bonneville, on leave from the U.S. Army, took a four year expedition, from 1832 to 1836, into the American west. They traveled parallel to the course of the Snake and the Columbia, and though they did reach Fort Walla Walla, they never managed to reach as far as Fort Vancouver or the Willamette Valley before turning back into modern day Idaho. From there, they turned south, and headed down into California (then part of... |
| Subject | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- Maps |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States -- West |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.5 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg |
| Contributor | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Is found in The Rocky mountains: or, Scenes, incidents, and adventures in the far West; digested from the journal of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville . and illustrated from various other sources |
