April 12, 2024
STRANGE RARE 1862 Johnson's Map of WESTERN US- CALIFORNIA, UTAH, NEW MEXICO
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LOOK AT THE STRANGE BORDER BETWEEN CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA!! UNIQUE RARE MAP! More pristine examples of this antique map are being offered online for $700! (see history below) GENUINE ANTIQUE 1862 MAP of The WESTERN UNITED STATES including CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO & ARIZONA from A.J. Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World With Descriptions This map was made during a period of rapidly-evolving US States & Territory borders. Why the strange California / Nevada border? The outbreak of the Civil War and thewealth of silver under Virginia City (here identified as ‘Mormon Settlement’) hastened the conferment of territorial status on Nevada in 1861. The new borders of Nevada as set in the territorial charter forced Johnson to revise his 1860 map, moving the Utah-Nevada border three degrees west to longitude 116 and the California border westward to the Sierra Nevada range. This unusual choice infringed upon California’s border charter inciting a border dispute between the two regions. The dispute was formally resolved in 1863 roughly according to the original California charter. This is the only example of Johnson’s southwest map, published in 1861 & early 1862, to show Nevada’s original territorial border and the resulting "weird-shaped" California. Size : approximately 26.75" x 18" double folio
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