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Detailed map of Nebraska, colored by counties. The West is still largely unexplored and uninhabited. Spottted Tails new Agency is one of the lone settlements in the Northwestern part of the state. Shows roads, railroads, towns, villages, post offices, rivers, stations and a host of other details. Decorative border. A terrific map, from Colton, one of the most prolific American mapmakers of the mid-19th Century. Few marginal tears that have been fixed, otherwise a great map.
G. W. & C. B. Colton was a prominent family firm of mapmakers who were leaders in the American map trade in the nineteenth century. The business was founded by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) who bought copyrights to existing maps and oversaw their production. By the 1850s, their output had expanded to include original maps, guidebooks, atlases, and railroad maps. Joseph was succeeded by his sons, George Woolworth (1827-1901) and Charles B. Colton (1831-1916). The firm was renamed G. W. & C. B. Colton as a result. George is thought responsible for their best-known work, the General Atlas, originally published under that title in 1857. In 1898, the brothers merged their business and the firm became Colton, Ohman, & Co., which operated until 1901, when August R. Ohman took on the business alone and dropped the Colton name.
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