Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota cateogry of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1874 Ludlow and Custer Map of the Black Hills, South Dakota (Little Big Horn)

George Armstrong Custer and William Ludlow's seminal 1874 map of the Black Hills, Dakota Territory, covering from the Missouri to the Powder River and from the 47th to the 43rd parallel. In 1874 one thousand cavalrymen under the command of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer moved into the Black Hills region of Dakota Territory. George Armstrong Custer and William Ludlow's seminal 1874 map of the Black Hills, Dakota Territory, covering from the Missouri to the Powder River and from the 47th to the 43rd parallel. In 1874 one thousand cavalrymen under the command of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer moved into the Black Hills region of Dakota Territory. This is a rare example of the 1875 geological map of the Black Hills, South Dakota prepared for the official report on the Custer Expedition of 1874. Centered on Harney's Peak, the highest point in the Black Hills, the map covers from Slave Butte to the South Fork of Cheyenne River. Various mountain peaks, wooded areas, creeks, prairies, and other topographical details are also noted. From the 1861 Johnson and Browning edition of the Johnson's Atlas , this is one of the rarest and most desirable states of the Johnson�s Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas map. In this example Nebraska is drawn with a long panhandle extending from Iowa all the way to Fremont�s Peak. To the north, Dakota is a massive and newly partitioned territory extending from Minnesota to the Rocky Mountains and from Nebraska to the border with British Columbia. This is an attractive county map of Minnesota and Iowa, showing counties in light pastels, roads, rivers, and relief shown by fine hachures. By William M. Bradley, from his Bradley's Alas of the World for Commercial and Library Reference , 1881. A beautiful example of A. J. Johnson�s 1862 map of Minnesota and Dakota. Covers both states as well as adjacent parts of Wisconsin and Iowa. This map predates the splitting of the Dakotas and instead depicts them as a single great state bounded on the west by the Missouri River. The proposed northern route for the Pacific Railroad runs diagonally in a northwesterly direction across both Minnesota and Dakota.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1874 Ludlow and Custer Map of the Black Hills, South Dakota (Little Big Horn)