Capturing the American Southwest during a period of transition and transformation near the end of the Civil War.
Johnson’s California, with Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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Description
An iconic map of the Civil War era, this is A. J. Johnson’s rendition of the American Southwest.
The map depicts a post-Mexican–American War Southwest, where the United States acquired vast territories from Mexico under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, including regions that are today’s California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado. The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 is also marked, solidifying the southern boundaries of Arizona and New Mexico.
It features key landmarks such as the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Rio Grande, and the Colorado River, and indicates various indigenous settlements, Spanish missions, frontier towns, military outposts, and trail routes like the Emigrants Trail. The old Pony Express and U.S. Mail Route is plotted.
Note especially the western portion of Arizona, which includes what is now southern Nevada, including Las Vegas.
Copious notes are included on the terrain and peoples of the region.
Cartographer(s):
Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884), also known as A.J. Johnson, was an American mapmaker who headed the New York City publishing company that produced Johnson’s Family Atlases from 1860 to 1887. The atlases charted the expansion of railroads and the development of new states, counties, and towns. They stood as a cartographic testament to the growth and development of the United States in the second half of the 19th century.
Condition Description
Discoloration and wear along fold line. Light Foxing.
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