Chiefly papers presented at the symposium sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies of the University of Nebraska--Lincoln in April 1983 Includes bibliographies and index
Contents:
Exploratory mapping of the Great Plains before 1800 / Ralph E. Ehrenberg Mapping the Missouri River through the Great Plains, 1673-1895 / W. Raymond Wood Patterns of promise : mapping the plains and prairies, 1800-1860 / John L. Allen Indian maps : their place in the history of Plains cartography / G. Malcolm Lewis "A chart in his way": Indian cartography and the Lewis and Clark Expedition / James P. Ronda The scientific instruments of the Lewis and Clark Expedition / Silvio A. Bedini Practical military geographers and mappers of the trans-Missouri west, 1820-1860 / John B. Garver, Jr. Mapping Kansas and Nebraska : the role of the General Land Office / Ronald E. Grim Mapping the interior plains of Rupert's Land by the Hudson's Bay Company to 1870 / Richard I. Ruggles Mapping the quality of land for agriculture in Western Canada / James M. Richtik Mapping the North American Plains : a catalog of the exhibition / Ralph E. Ehrenberg
