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1799 -- Map
covering the St. Louis area that was investigated and plotted by a French Army
Lieutenant prior to the Louisiana Purchase.
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1803-06 -- Jefferson made great efforts to ensure that Lewis and Clark had access to
the most recent maps and exploration narratives of their time. Upon
their return from the west, Lewis and Clark brought with them knowledge of new
lands and resources for the growing country. Clark used this knowledge to
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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.
Created in 1798 by Nicolas de Finiels.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
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Nicholas King map used by Lewis and Clark, with
annotations in brown ink by Meriwether Lewis, tracing showing the
Mississippi, the Missouri for a short distance above Kansas, Lakes
Michigan, Superior, and Winnipeg, and the country onwards to the
Pacific, 1803.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
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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, copied by Samuel
Lewis from the original drawing of Wm. Clark, 1814.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
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1858 - Map
of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific
Ocean; ordered by Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of
the explorations for a railroad route.
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1867-71 - The
Four Great Surveys of the West
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1879
- The U.S. Geological
Survey was established on March 3, 1879 in response to a report from the
National Academy of Sciences, which had been asked by the Congress in 1878 to
provide a plan for surveying and mapping the Territories of the United States
that would secure the best possible results at the least possible cost.
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1898 -- The Elk Point Folio, South Dakota-Nebraska-Iowa
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