Historical Atlas of the American West

This is a wonderful book. With all my summer road trips around the West, I don't know how I got along without it but from now on it will always be in arms reach. Almost all the maps are simple line maps just showing national and state boundaries so that for instance the map of WWII Japanese-American relocation camps is the sparse line map with dots sprinkled around the West marking the location of the camps. On the facing page is a concise history of the subject of the preceding map. There are obvious subjects like the Oregon Trail, and more obscure subjects like the distribution of hog farms. My favorite is a map showing the dispersion northward of horses left behind by Spanish explorers and that were to become the favored mode of transportation of the Plains Indians. I have a couple of similar books just for California but to my knowledge this is the only such map book for the American West.

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Out of date, and context at times. I used this for a class on early history of the west and the railroad maps are 1970 era. Needs serious updating and the railroad maps should follow the same timeline of the other maps.

Initially I was disappointed as detailed maps of counties and territories of the American West are not to be found in this book. That said though, maps such as the expansion of the railroad, migratory patterns of buffalo, discoveries of ore, etc. all more than make up for what I was originally looking for.

It has been great help for my thesis. I recommend it for anyone who wants to know more about the history of the people and events through pictures.