Record Details
The First Map Ever Made of Country Between Big Creek and Salmon River, I.T. (1926)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The First Map Ever Made of Country Between Big Creek and Salmon River, I.T. (1926) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu561 wsu 561; E83.866 .B76 1926 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,702 |
| Creator | Brown, W. C. (William Carey), 1854-1939. |
| Date | 1926 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | [Boise, Id. : Syms-York Company] |
| Description | 1 map: 15 x 22 cm. Scale: 1 inch = 7 miles. A handwritten note by the author is in red pencil on the left. W.C. Brown was a second Lieutenant in the U.S. Cavalry during the Indian Wars of the late 1870s. These maps come from a book by him, published in 1926 after his retirement, about the Sheepeater Campaign. The Sheepeaters was the name given to a band of high mountain Indians who subsisted mostly on sheep, and the Campaign involved the army going up into these fairly inaccessible... |
| Subject | Tukuarika Indians -- Wars, 1879.; Indians of North America -- Idaho -- Maps |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States -- Idaho |
| 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 Sheepeater campaign : Idaho--1879 |
