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Description

Scarce map of North America, published by William Gilpin.

William Gilpin was the first governor of the state of Colorado and a proponent of the concept of Manifest Destiny, the transcontinental railway and a westward expansion of the United States. He produced the present map in support of his theories on how to populate the country.

Gilpin's maps were among the earliest to show economic potential for the West and to think in terms of regional resources and climates. 

Gilpin's map uses concentric circles, which Gilpin used to represent the future population density with the center of population at Topeka, Kansas.