Riecker, Paul Friedrich (sold)
Paul Friedrich Riecker (March 2, 1851 - January 31, 1936) was a German-American explorer, surveyor, civil engineer, and mining engineer. Riecker was born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He studied civil engineering at the Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart. He immigrated to the United States between 1870 and 1872 for unclear reasons. He promptly enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving from 1873 to 1880. He led an early exploration party across the Colorado Plateau and was among the first to make contact with the Havasupai at the Grand Canyon. With his civil engineering training, he operated as a draughtsman for the Army in San Francisco until 1876. In 1877, he was reassigned to Fort Whipple, Yavapai, Arizona. Riecker retired from military service in 1880, taking a position in Tucson as a draftsman with the Surveyor' General's Office. In this capacity, along with Emil A. Eckhoff (1850 - 19??), he compiled the first official map of Arizona, published in 1880. Riecker went on to map Pasadena, California, in 1896. He also laid the street plans for both Inglewood and Redondo Beach, California. He was also involved in the Panama-Nicaragua Canal controversy as one of the original surveyors of the Nicaragua Canal route. In his later years, he moved to Oroville, California.
'Largest scale map of the territory...' - Streeter
Official Map of the Territory of Arizona.
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This is the first official map of Arizona Territory, published in 1880 by Emil A. Eckhoff and Paul Riecker. Rumsey calls this 'one of the best maps of Arizona as a territory.' It represents the primary cartographic resource during one of the most exciting and romantic periods of Arizona's history - recording the Arizona Silver and Copper mining boom, the early development of the territory's infrastructure and railroads, and the era of frontier lawlessness marked by the Gunfight at O.K. Corral, and other similar events. (more details)