[MAP] Johnson's Missouri and Kansas (c. 1860)

[MAP] Johnson's Missouri and Kansas. New York: Johnson & Browning, c. 1860. [10383] Large double-plate hand-colored map, 46 x 67.5 cm (18 x 26 3/4 inches), clean, suitable for framing. We repaired a short tear in the margin at the bottom of the fold, and reinforced part of it from the bottom side. Will ship folded at center, as found. Removed from a bound volume, Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas. Good. Map. This map shows roads, railroads, mail routes, rivers, counties, and locales. The western part of Kansas is open country with no counties established west of Washington, Clay, Dickison, or Chase. The counties are hand-painted in colors. There are inset engravings of Spearing Fish; Fire on the Prairie; and Santa Fé, from the Great Missouri Trail. This is an historic Civil War era map. Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884), b. Wallingford, Vermont; school teacher, for some years a book and map seller for J. H. Colton and Co. After some efforts at publishing his own maps, Johnson f