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Author Clark, Thomas D.

Title Historic Maps of Kentucky
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1979

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Description 1 online resource (97 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Sources of Illustrations; Preface; Metes & Bounds of Kentucky; 1. A Virgin Borderland; 2. The Royal Boundary & the Westward Movement; 3. The Walker Line & the Jackson Purchase; 4. Dr. Walker's Legacy; 5. A Boundary in Equity; 6. The Ohio Low Water Mark; 7. Patterns on the Land; 8 . Years of Conflict; The Mapping of Kentucky; 1. North America, Thomas Conder; 2. The United States, John Russell; 3. Kentucky, from Elihu Barker, W. Barker; 4. Kentucky with Adjoining Territories; 5. Kentucky, John Melish; 6. A New Map of Kentucky, H.S. Tanner
7. Kentucky & Tennessee, John Bartholomew8. The Limestone Road, Victor Collot; 9. Rapids of the Ohio River, Jared Brooks; 10. The Perryville Battlefield, Edward Ruger & Anton Kilp; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Maps published frorn the third quarter of the eighteenth century through the Civil War reflect in colorful detail the emergence of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the unfolding art of American cartography. Ten maps, selected and annotated by the most eminent historian of Kentucky, have been reproduced in authentic facsimiles. The accompanying booklet includes an illuminating historical essay, as well as notes on the individuaL facsimiles, and is illustrated with numerous details of other notable Kentucky maps. Among the rare maps reproduced are one of the battlefield of Perryville (1877), a co
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Subject Cartography -- Kentucky
HISTORY -- Historical Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
Boundaries
Cartography
Historical geography
SUBJECT Kentucky -- Boundaries
Kentucky -- Historical geography
Kentucky -- Historical geography -- Maps
Kentucky -- Maps
Subject Kentucky
Genre/Form Maps
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813165264
0813165261