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Washington Hood (February 2, 1808 – July 17, 1840) was American army officer in the Corps of Topographical Engineers. Hood was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of John McClellan Hood, a wholesale grocer. Hood attended West Point, from which he was the 500th graduate, matriculating with in the class of 1827. Between 1831 and 1846 he completed various topographical surveys in Missouri and Florida (Seminole Wars?). He next worked with Robert E. Lee measuring the Ohio-Michigan line. In 1836, Hood resigned his military commission to work as a private civil engineer. He spent much of 1837 in Cuba, where he performed railroad work. He rejoined the military as a Captain in 1838 and in that year produced his landmark map of Oregon territory. In 1839, President Van Buren sent him to survey the Oklahoma Shawnee lands between the Arkansas and Missouri River. During this assignment, he contracted an unknown illness from which he died less than a year later. A large archive of his important sketches and manuscripts are preserved at the Winterthur Library in Delaware and Beinecke Rare Book Library, at Yale.
Important map illustrating American Indian land assignments west of the Mississippi in 1834.
Map of the Western Territory and c.
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A trans-Mississippi map of considerable interest and historical importance, this is Washington Hood's 1834 map of American Indian lands in modern day Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa (although coverage extends to Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and parts of ... (more details)
Used by Henry David Thoreau when writing 'Cape Cod.'
A Map of the Extremity of Cape Cod Including the Townships of Provincetown and Truro: A Chart of Their Sea Coast and of Cape Cod Harbour, State of Massachusetts.
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An exceptional discovery, this is James Duncan Graham's wall map of Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod. At the time of issue, and for a long time afterwards, this was the definitive map of the Provincetown area and the surrounding waters, said to have been used by, among many others, Henry David Thoreau when writing Cape Cod. The map was produced to
aid in the projection of the works for the military defenses of the important harbor formed by the peculiar spiral termination of [Cape Cod], and also to aid our ships of war and other vessels in entering it with safety after making this prominent headland. (Congressional Report, 25th Congress, Second Session, p. 3).(more details)
A highly detailed map of the Pacific Northwest that predates the establishment of the Oregon Territory.
Map of the United States Territory of Oregon West of the Rocky Mountains, Exhibiting the various Trading Depots or Forts occupied by the British Hudson Bay Company, connected with the Western and northwestern Fur Trade.
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This is an important and scarce 1838 map of the Oregon Territory by Captain Washington Hood. Prepared to 'illustrate the report of Senator Linn on a Bill to authorize the President to occupy the Oregon Territory', this map covers present day Oregon, ... (more details)
Landmark map used in Congressional and International Debates.
Map of the United States Territory of Oregon West of the Rocky Mountains, Exhibiting the various Trading Depots or Forts occupied by the British Hudson Bay Company, connected with the Western and northwestern Fur Trade.
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This is the landmark 1838 map of the Oregon Territory by Captain Washington Hood, a founding member of the Corps of Topographical Engineers. This map was used for congressional debates of the status of the Oregon Territory, both regarding its position within the United States and in international disputes with Great Britain - the Oregon Question or 54°40′ Debate. (more details)
Map of the United States Territory of Oregon West of the Rocky Mountains, Exhibiting the various Trading Depots or Forts occupied by the British Hudson Bay Company, connected with the Western and northwestern Fur Trade.
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This is an important and scarce 1838 map of the Oregon Territory by Captain Washington Hood. Prepared to 'illustrate the report of Senator Linn on a Bill to authorize the President to occupy the Oregon Territory,' this map covers present day Oregon, ... (more details)