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Description

A rare cornerstone map based upon Hunt & Stuart's explorations, which resulted in the discovery of the South Pass & the Oregon Trail.

Because Jacob Astor so closely guarded the information brought back by Hunt & Stuart and did not release their accounts until years later, the only contemporary account being in volumes 10 & 12 of a rare French journal, Nouvelle Annales Des Voyages, accompanied by Lapie's equally rare map, which faithfully reports Hunt & Stuarts discoveries.

There is no English edition of of the map. Wheat states that the map is of tremendous cartographic importance and surmised that Lapie had access to a manuscript map furnished by Gallatin or Astor.

The Streeter copy of themap, with the text, brought $850.00 at auction in 1968.

Reference
Streeter 3137. Wheat 342.