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Title: Map to illustrate the route of Prince Macimilian of Wied in the interior of North America from Boston to the upper Missouri
Date: 1839
Description: From Karl Bodmer's "Illustration to Maximilian Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America. London : Ackerman & Co. 1844. First edition was published in Germany, 1839. See David Rumsey's Map Collection entry for more information.

Title: Map of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas
Date: 1826
Description: 1826 map of the State of Missouri, with counties, mountains, towns and rivers included. Arkansas Territory is also mapped out similarly. Native American villages are noted to the west of Missouri.

Title: Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Carolinæ, Virginiæ et Pensylvaniæ, necnon insvlarvm archipelagi Mexica
Date: 1759
Description: An interesting map of New Spain, in Latin, showing Louisiana demarcated from the Illinois country. On this map is shown knowledge of the Osage, the Missouri, and other tribes; the traditional French trading partners of the St. Louis region.

Title: A Map of Louisiana and the River Mississipi
Date: 1719, 1721
Description: Senex, an astronomer and geologist, became a popular map maker of world maps in miniature, early pocket sized maps, and almanac maps. For this chart, an accurate map for the English speaking world for its time, he borrowed heavily from the De l’Isle map. His work did not extend to duplicating French claims to

Title: Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi
Date: 1718
Description: Guillaume De l’Isle’s “Map of Louisiana and the Mississippi River” is one of the most famous maps in American history, what cartographers call, because of its accuracy and eloquence, a “mother map,” a map in this case that spurred great imitation, innovation, and political thought. The map was originally published in 1718, the year this mapmaker was appointed Chief Geographer to the King (Louis

Title: Carte du Missouri Levee ou Rectisiee dans toute son Etendue
Date: 1805
Description: A map drawn in 1802 based on information gained in St. Louis about the vast lands outward from the city in all directions.

Title: Nouvelle carte particulière de l'Amérique
Date: 1741
Description: Popple was an associate of astronomer and mathematician, Edmund Halley, and the advertisement in the inset cartouche for this map stresses that friendship in an endorsement for the map’s accuracy, depicting fields, forts, towns, rivers, bogs, forests, all from St. Louis’s future area, well mapped, showing the Missouri River in detailed positioning, also the Meramec River, Cahokia and Kaskaskia

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