Buy this book on-line Samuel Parker : Map of Oregon Territory
M.M. Peabody, New York, 1838
Hand Colored in Outline, Very Good, laid on acid free paper for long term preservation., Size : 355x590 (mm), 14x23.25 (Inches)
"Samuel Parker's 'Map of Oregon Territory' of 1838 represented a real advance, and was made from personal observation. Of it Wagner-Camp remarked that it was 'the earliest to obtain ciculation which contains reliable information as to the interior of Oregon Territory. . .' On this map the North Fork of the Platte is shown, with the Sweetwater flowing into it. South Pass is not named, byt the sources of the Sweetwater and the Big Sandy. . .are close together. Bear River is imperfect, but correctly flows into Salt Lake, while not far north, at the mouth of the Portneuf, is Fort Hall. The Yellowstone heads in Lake Eustis, but Lewis and Clark's Lake Biddle is now absent, and west of the crest of the Rockies is Jackson's Lake, under the Trois Tetons, finding its outlet in a stream that flows into Henry's Fork, and later the Snake. . ." (Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, vol. II pg 165-166)
The Western part of North America was still ill defined in terms of ownership. Since 1818 the region was held by Britain and USA, as it will be until 1846 when Oregon treaty would define the future border between USA and Canada. The boundary was finalised along the 49th parallel agreed by the Oregon treaty. , Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, vol. II, no. 438, pp. 165–166.
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