Newberry Library - Manuscript map of route from the western U.S. border to Taos. Unidentified maker, Thomas Mather papers, undated

Manuscript map of route from the western U.S. border to Taos. Unidentified maker, Thomas Mather papers, undated

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Open book Manuscript map of route from the western U.S. border to Taos. Unidentified maker, Thomas Mather papers, undated

Title Manuscript map of route from the western U.S. border to Taos. Unidentified maker, Thomas Mather papers, undated

Creator Mather, Thomas, 1794-1853

Date undated

Place Santa Fe National Historic Trail, Southwestern States

Language English

Subjects Santa Fe Road Commission

Description Letters, diaries, account book, map and biographical sketch, most in connection with Mather’s activities as one of three commissioners appointed by the government to survey and mark a route from Missouri to Santa Fe in 1825.

User-Contributed Transcription [[This page consists of a sketch map, drawn on a grid, of portions of the Arkansas and Simaron [Cimarron] Rivers. The sketch is bordered by the notation "U.S. Boundary line" at one end and "Rio Del Norte" at the other. Various points of reference and coordinates are part of the sketch. A notation at the bottom reads: "Latitude of unclear is 36-24-30 N." A detailed notation accompanies a point on the sketch locating Chouteau's Island and reads as follows: "Chouteaus Isld. where we turn southd. may be known as a sort of mound like point on the north side of the river, the Island is full of small cotton wood & brush; also at the lower end of it is a thicket of brush & some trees on the south side of the river -- 2 miles or so to the sand hills from the river, a lone tree is to be to the right hand, it stands in a valley: passing south this valley leads through the sand hills about 5 miles -- when about 2 mi? in the hills leave some grown? trees? to the right the way is good if rightly followed which is easily done"]]

Archival Collection Title Thomas Mather papers

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Call Number VAULT folio Graff 2707 Box 1 Folder 19

BibID 991560298805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 5291px × 3296px 49.92 MB

File Created 07/30/2012

Filename 991560298805867_Graff_2707_box_0001_fol_0019_0036.tif

Unique Identifier NL1V68W

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