The listing, NG MAP: THE SOUTHWEST has ended.
Included as a supplement in National Geographic, November 1982 to accompany an article about the Making of American, Southwest. A beautiful map as only National Geographic can do it.
Map is 20-1/2" x 27" and is to a scale of 1 inch = 34.2 miles. It covers an area from Baja California Norte and Sonora and Chihuahua Mexico and Texas in the south to California, Utah and Colorado to the north. Or from about 28.5 degrees to about 37 degrees North Latitude by about 102 degrees x 117 degrees West Longitude.
Indicated are roads, routes, mountains, rivers battlefields, missions, ghost towns and much more.
The back of the map shows the history: Indian Lands 1600s, Spanish Conquest 1540-1820, and Anglo-American Entry and Occupancy 1820-1900.
A really beautiful map in excellent condition.