Maps of westward expansion
Maps of the United States growing west in the 19th century: the Louisiana Purchase, the maps from Lewis and Clark's expedition, emigrant trails to Oregon and California, the territories, and the surveys for the transcontinental railroad.
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The Louisiana Purchase
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Louisiana, as formerly claimed by France, now containing part of British America to the east & Spanish America to the west of the Mississippi.
1765 · Library of Congress

A map of Louisiana, with the course of the Missisipi, and the adjacent rivers, the nations of the natives, the French establishments and the mines; by the author of ye History of that colony. 1757.
1763 · Library of Congress

Map of Louisiana, from d'Anville's atlas.
1788 · Library of Congress

Map of Louisiana
1820 · Library of Congress

Map of Louisiana.
1865 · Library of Congress

A map of Louisiana and of the river Mississipi (i.e. Mississippi) - this map of the Mississipi (i.e. Mississippi) is most humbly inscribed to William Law of Lanreston, esq.
1721 · Library of Congress

La Luisiana cedida al Rei N. S. por S. M. Christianisima, con la Nueva Orleans, è isla en que se halla esta ciudad. Construida sobre el mapa de Mr. d'Anville.
1762 · Library of Congress

A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi.
1721 · Library of Congress
Lewis and Clark
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A map of Lewis and Clark's track, across the western portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean - by order of the executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6
1814 · Library of Congress

A map of Lewis and Clark's track across the western portion of North America, from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean - by order of the executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6
1814 · Library of Congress

A map of the discoveries of Capt. Lewis & Clark from the Rockey Mountain and the River Lewis to the Cap of Disappointement or the Coloumbia River at the north Pacific Ocean
1807 · Library of Congress

A map of part of the continent of North America - between the 35th and 51st degrees of north latitude, and extending from 89⁰ degrees of west longitude to the Pacific Ocean
1805 · Library of Congress

Lewis and Clark track map published 1814
1814 · Library of Congress

Map of Missouri River and vicinity from Saint Charles, Missouri, to Mandan villages of North Dakota - used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their 1804 expedition up Missouri River.
1798 · Library of Congress
Trails west
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Map of the emigrant road from Independence Mo. to St. Francisco, California
1849 · Library of Congress

Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Frémont and other authorities
1848 · Library of Congress

Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Frémont and other authorities
1848 · Library of Congress

Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Frémont and other authorities
1848 · Library of Congress

From the northern boundary of California to the Columbia River - from explorations and surveys
1859 · Library of Congress

Topographical map of the road from Missouri to Oregon, commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and ending at the mouth of the Walla-Wallah in the Columbia.
1846 · Library of Congress

Map to illustrate Capt. Bonneville's adventures among the Rocky Mountains
1850 · Library of Congress

Map of the United States, Territory of Oregon, west of the Rocky Mountains, exhibiting the various trading depots or forts occupied by the British Hudson Bay Company, connected with the western and
1838 · Library of Congress
The territories
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Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff' Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route.
1863 · Library of Congress

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route.
1858 · Library of Congress

Map of the United States west of the Mississippi showing the routes to Pike's Peak, overland mail route to California and Pacific rail road surveys. To which are added the new state & territorial
1859 · Library of Congress

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route.
1858 · Library of Congress

New trans-continental map of the Pacific R.R. and routes of overland travel to Colorado, Nebraska, the Black Hills, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, California and the Pacific Coast.
1877 · Library of Congress

Map of routes for a Pacific railroad, compiled to accompany the report of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, sec. of war.
1855 · Library of Congress

General map of the United States & their territory between the Mississippi & the Pacific Ocean. 1. Showing the different surveyed routes from the Mississippi valley to the coast of Pacific Ocean, 2.
1859 · Library of Congress

Map of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains
1837 · Library of Congress
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