Arkansas: Bradford 1838

Title: Arkansas Author: Thomas Bradford Date: 1838 Medium: Hand-colored engraving Condition: Good Inches: 11 1/4" x 14 1/4" [Image] Centimeters: 28.86 x 36.5 [Image] Product ID: 002229 From An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, And Historical, Of The United States And The Adjacent Countries. By T.G. Bradford. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, And Company. New York: Wiley And Putnam. Engraved by G.W. Boynton.This map of Arkansas comes from a first edition of the atlas that is known as Bradford's finest.At one time, Arkansas Territory consisted of all or part of thirteen present Texas counties, and the Miller County courthouse was about fifty miles west of Texarkana. The uncertainty of the boundary led to near war with Spain when the Spanish army, claiming part of Arkansas in the Red River valley north of present-day Texarkana, stopped President Thomas Jefferson's southern exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, led by Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis. Jefferson's humiliation by