Revd. Samuel Parker
Map of Oregon Territory, 1838
15 x 23 in
38 x 58 cm
38 x 58 cm
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A detailed and extremely early map of the Oregon Territory, published prior to the settlement of the northern boundary between the United States and Canada. Based on personal observations by...
A detailed and extremely early map of the Oregon Territory, published prior to the settlement of the northern boundary between the United States and Canada.
Based on personal observations by Revd. Samuel Parker, one of the first Protestant missionaries to travel to the Oregon Territory, this is a foundational map of the Pacific Northwest and marks a major advance in the quality of mapping available for this region. It was published only four years after Arrowsmith’s landmark map of the same region, entitled British North America, which was based on sources obtained from the Hudson’s Bay Company and it was issued during a period of heightened tension and diplomatic manoeuvring between the United States and Great Britain. The question of the claims and official border would not be settled until the Oregon Treaty of 1846 but this map has always been viewed as the first widely distributed cartographic record of the interior of this vast new territory.
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Based on personal observations by Revd. Samuel Parker, one of the first Protestant missionaries to travel to the Oregon Territory, this is a foundational map of the Pacific Northwest and marks a major advance in the quality of mapping available for this region. It was published only four years after Arrowsmith’s landmark map of the same region, entitled British North America, which was based on sources obtained from the Hudson’s Bay Company and it was issued during a period of heightened tension and diplomatic manoeuvring between the United States and Great Britain. The question of the claims and official border would not be settled until the Oregon Treaty of 1846 but this map has always been viewed as the first widely distributed cartographic record of the interior of this vast new territory.
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