American West – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 04 May 2018 19:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg American West – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Exhibitions on Maps of the American West https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/05/exhibitions-on-maps-of-the-american-west/ Fri, 04 May 2018 19:19:38 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785543 More]]> Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State, which opened on 20 April at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, “traces the cartographic history of Texas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries” through a small (26 item) collection of maps and documents, all of which are reproductions. Press release. [WMS]

At the Grolier Club in New York, Westward the Course of Empire: Exploring and Settling the American West, 1803-1869, an exhibition of maps from the collection of J. C. McElveen Jr. 50 maps on display, including Lewis and Clark’s map of the Northwest. Press release. [WMS]

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