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Assembled over a period of 35 years by radio and television executive Jack Rosenthal of Casper, the 42 framed maps are believed to be the most comprehensive such collection known. The Wyoming State Historical Society calls the map collection “a history lesson in itself.” A widely published award winning author, Rosenthal is a University of Wyoming graduate in History. He personally designed a number of United States postage stamps while serving as the chairman of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee of the U.S. Postal Service in Washington. Currently, he chairs the committee generating the design for the U.S. Mint’s Wyoming State Quarter.

Map #1      

Texas, Oregon, California

The Trans-Mississippi West – 1846

Encompassing the entire western portion of our country as it appeared in 1846, a map produced by S. Augustus Mitchell of Philadelphia.  Texas just had been granted statehood. Oregon would become a territory two years later and, in 1850, California would achieve statehood, the same year that Utah would be designated as a territory. The map focuses upon the Oregon Trail, the “Emigrant Route from Missouri to Oregon”, as it is described in the table of distances in its lower left corner.  Information gathered by the Fremont Expedition of 1843 was incorporated into the mapping of the portion that is now Wyoming.

Map #2         

Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming

An 1865 rendering of the area, containing numerous inaccuracies and presumptions.  Published by A.J. Johnson in New York, it contains incorrect locations for the planned Union Pacific Railroad, for the Big Horn Mountains, Fort Reno and other misplaced topographical features. Labeling our area as Wyoming at that time would have been purely speculative and premature.

Map #3

Wyoming Five County Map

The configuration of the territory of Wyoming, showing the boundaries of Laramie, Albany, Carbon, Sweetwater and Uinta counties, the original five that eventually multiplied to 23.  The counties were defined by the First Wyoming Legislative Assembly in 1869.  Laramie County had been organized earlier as part of Dakota Territory. Also reflected is the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad across southern Wyoming.

Map #4

Wyoming, Colorado, Utah

A seven county map, published in 1882, still not reflecting the name change for Johnson County, which had become effective three years earlier.  Only the Union Pacific Railroad existed in Wyoming at that time, with its Granger Junction to Idaho (Oregon Short Line) trackage that would be constructed that same year.

Map #5

County Map of Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota, Montana

An S. Augustus Mitchell map, published in 1877, which fails to depict the 1875 increase in the number of Wyoming counties from 5 to 7, nor is there is there an indication that Uinta County had been formed eight years earlier. It does show Yellowstone National Park.