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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1838	Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel	Boston	Iowa and Wisconsin	$450	Picture

An engraved map, with original color

Size: 36 cm x 29 cm (14.1 inches x 11.4 inches). Scale 1 inch = 25 miles.

Map Type: Atlas

Inset map "Part of Wisconsin and Iowa" displays the land between the Missouri river east to the Mississippi river, and illustrates the locations of the Dahcota, Sioux, Sauk, Fox, Iowa, and Chippeway indian tribes.

Taken from An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, And Historical, Of The United States And The Adjacent Countries. T.G. Bradford served as an assistant editor of the America Encyclopedia before entering the field of atlas publishing with his first work published in 1835. G.W. Boynton operated an engraving shop in Boston between 1830 and 1845.

With the financial success of his 1835 A Comprehensive Atlas, Bradford was able to update his maps, enlarge them and add a descriptive text to each. For map hungry Americans, these were attractive features to those interested in migrating during the burgeoning western expansion of the United States.

This map is from the 1st edition of An Illustrated Atlas.. considered by most to be Bradford's best atlas, far superior to the smaller and more crudely drawn 1835 Comprehensive Atlas.

This early map of Iowa displays the location of the rivers, creeks, mountains, and other topographical features.

In the center of the map, just northwest of Madison and the Four Lakes area the location of a Battle Ground is noted. This is the location of the ¹Battle of Wisconsin Heights. On July 21, 1832, a three-day chase of the Sauk cheif Black Hawk (or MA KA TAI ME SHE KIA KIAH as documented by McKenney and Hall in their History of the Indian Tribes of North America) culminated when a militia group of volunteers led by General James D. Henry and Colonel Henry Dodge fought an allied band of Sauk, Fox, Potawatomi, and Kickapoo indians. Black Hawk and his group of followers had attempted for two years to eject the white settlers from their land.

Black Hawk would surrender a month later at the fur trade center Prairie du Chien and Fort Crawford, both identified on this interesting and historical map.

References: A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 1381, Phillips, P.L, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1909; Rumsey List No. 0089; American Maps and Mapmakers, p270-271, Ristow, George, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1985 Citations: ¹Wisconsin Historical Society