Plan of Captain Carvers travel in the interior parts of North America in 1766 and 1767.

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Short Title	Plan of Captain Carvers travel in the interior parts of North America in 1766 and 1767.
Full Title	Plan of Captain Carvers travel in the interior parts of North America in 1766 and 1767.
Map Creator	Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.
Date Original	1778
Description	This map comes from Jonathan Carver’s Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America. The book and accompanying maps played a major role in how people thought of the western side of the continent until expeditions were able to travel there themselves. Carver never made it much past the Mississippi, but accounts and tales that he gathered were used to make a map that went all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Territory/Region	Middle West;
State/Province	WI; MN; IA;
Entire State	Wisconsin; Minnesota; Iowa;
Map Coordinates	W 99_--W 83_/N 49_--N 41_.
Dimensions	26 x 34 cm.
Scale on Map	Scale [ca. 1:3,500,000]
Physical Description	1 map : hand col. ;
Place of publication	London :
Source Publisher	s.n.,
Electronic Publisher	Wisconsin Historical Society
Electronic Publication Date	2010
Owner	Wisconsin Historical Society
Owner Collection	George S. Parker Map Collection
Owner Object ID	Parker 1054
WHI Image ID	73106
OCLC number	(OCoLC)ocn312478177\| (OCoLC)ocn636101593 (online)
File Format	jpeg2000
Permissions Information	Any map may be printed or downloaded at no cost for nonprofit educational use by teachers and students, or for private use by individual researchers. Nothing may be reproduced in any format for commercial purposes without prior permission from the Wisconsin Historical Society.

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Plan of Captain Carvers travel in the interior parts of North America in 1766 and 1767.

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