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., From: A new American atlas designed principally to illustrate the geography of the United States of North America, in which every country in each state and territory of the Union is accurately delineated, as far as at present known : the whole compiled from the latest and most authentic information. / A. Finley
From The Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea: 1823. Depicts Missouri at the time of statehood, which happened in 1820.
Melish accompanied his map of the region of St. Louis at the same time with glowing words for the city, the largest west of the Mississippi, with a reported census of 5000 inhabitants and 550 houses, “of which a great proportion were well constructed buildings of brick and stone.” He reported that St. Louis, “Standing near the confluence of such mighty streams, the produce of an almost immeasurable extent of back country must flow into it, and that country must be supplied from it, with merchandise.”, A geographical description of the United States, with the contiguous countries, including Mexico and the West Indies; intended as an accompaniment to Melish's map of these countries ... / by John Melish. Philadelphia : The author, 1822.
Buchon, Carez, and Beaupre. "Carte geographique, statistique et historique du Missouri." Paris: Carez, 1825 from those authors’ general atlas in French and essentially the same map as the Missouri map from "The Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas." Philadelphia: Carey and Lea: 1823
