Nebraska

Nebraska passes on these maps from a vast western territory to a state divided into counties and crossed by railways. Johnso...

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Nebraska passes on these maps from a vast western territory to a state divided into counties and crossed by railways. Johnson and Colton sheets show its changing borders with Kansas, Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, so territorial maps can include land beyond today's state line, and public survey maps lay out the land on its ordered grid. Later maps emphasise railways, highways and cities such as Omaha and Lincoln. Royce's land-cession maps and Catlin's subjects record the Pawnee, Omaha, Ponca and other Indigenous communities along the Missouri and Platte, and the prints show camps, prairie bluffs and Chimney Rock alongside Union Pacific stations, the Missouri bridge and civic buildings.

Nebraska passes on these maps from a vast western territory to a state divided into counties and crossed by railways. Johnson and Colton sheets show its changing borders with Kansas, Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, so territorial maps can include land beyond today's state line, and public survey maps lay out the land on its ordered grid. Later maps emphasise railways, highways and cities such as Omaha and Lincoln. Royce's land-cession maps and Catlin's subjects record the Pawnee, Omaha, Ponca and other Indigenous communities along the Missouri and Platte, and the prints show camps, prairie bluffs and Chimney Rock alongside Union Pacific stations, the Missouri bridge and civic buildings.

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