Historic Map : Johnson Map of Minnesota and Dakota, 1863, Vintage Wall Art

This is a beautiful example of Johnson and Ward's 1863 map of Minnesota and Dakota. It covers both states as well as parts of 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. Also notes several American Indian nations including the Dakotah, Odjibwe, Assiniboin, Aikara, Minitarree and others. The map is color coded according to county and notes several towns, cities, rivers, railways and various other topographical details. Features the fretwork style border common to Johnson's atlas work from 1863 to 1869. Published by Johnson and Ward as plate no. 56 in the scarce 1863 edition of Johnson's Family Atlas.