This map depicts the steps officials in Missouri and Iowa took to create two modern states. They were landmarks in their day - actually led to possible armed conflict in the "Honey War" on the contested state line or lines, when several honey bee tree hives were cut down - militias and hot heads assembled on both sides of the supposed boundaries. Iowa got a proper line and eventually Missouri got the Platte district and stretched towards Council Bluffs and the Missouri River country's rich soil in the northwest. Much of the work for the resolution of this conflict was performed out of St. Louis in the 1830s.
Shows four claim lines: No. 1 and No. 2: old Indian boundary or Sullivan's Line; No. 3; and No. 4: Brown's Line or line claimed by Missouri. Longitude west from Washington. Executed under the direction of the Commissioner on the part of the United States. January 1839, signed by Albert Miller Sea, Court for U. States.
