Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest; Maps of Exploration and Discovery: British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Yukon

by Derek Hayes

• ISBN13: 9781570612152
• ISBN10: 1570612153
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-01-07
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Summary

This regional bestseller is a one-of-a-kind collection of maps created by navigators, explorers, and cartographers who first charted the Northwest. The Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest showcases more than 320 original maps, many never before published. Here are the maps of explorers such as Cook, Vancouver, Bodega y Quadra, Mackenzie, Thompson, and Lewis and Clark. Representing four centuries of discovery and exploration, this unique reference book is a must-have for anyone interested in Northwest history.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(9)
Early Approaches to the Northwest Coast	9	(1)
The Making of a Spanish Lake	9	(1)
The First Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast	9	(1)
The Zalteiri Map of 1566	10	(1)
The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake	11	(3)
The Michael Lok Map of 1582	14	(1)
Rumold Mercator's Map of 1587	14	(1)
The First Map of the Pacific Northwest	15	(1)
Thomas Cavendish- the Second English Circumnavigation	15	(1)
The 1606 Map of Joducus Hondius	16	(1)
The 1597 Wytfliet Map - The First American Atlas	16	(1)
The Voyage of Juan de Fuca - Real or Imaginary?	16	(1)
The Voyage of Sebastian Vizacaino	17	(1)
Virginia to the Pacific?	18	(1)
The Van Keulen Sea Atlases	18	(1)
Nicolas Sanson's Mappe-Monde	19	(1)
Giants on the Northwest Coast	19	(1)
Vitus Bering's First Voyage	20	(1)
The Du Halde Map Reveals Russian Discoveries	21	(1)
Vitus Bering's Second Voyage	22	(2)
Jacques Nicholas Bellin's Attempts at Realism	24	(1)
The La France Map of 1744	25	(1)
The Mysterious Admiral De Fonte - the Mapping of Imagination	26	(2)
John Green Tries to Set the Record Straight	28	(1)
Gerhard Muller and his Famous Map	29	(3)
The Russians Discover the Aleutians	32	(1)
Byron's Pacific Voyage	32	(1)
Jonathan Carver's Travels	33	(2)
The First Spanish Explorations on the Northwest Coast	35	(1)
Thomas Jefferys' 1775 American Atlas	36	(1)
The Spanish Map the Washington and Oregon Coasts	37	(3)
Ignacio de Arteaga's Voyage to Alaska	40	(2)
James Cook's Third Voyage Reaches the Pacific Northwest	42	(4)
John Gore's Hopes for a Northwest Passage	46	(1)
Cook's Legacy	47	(1)
The Journal of James Burney	48	(1)
Secrecy on the Third Voyage	49	(1)
George Vancouver - Midshipman	50	(1)
Peter Pallas Maps Cook's Voyage	51	(1)
The Lovtsov Atlas	52	(2)
William Faden's Map of 1785	54	(1)
The Fur Traders after Cook	55	(1)
James Hanna	55	(1)
James Strange	56	(1)
Cook's Officers Return to the Northwest Coast	57	(2)
The Illustrious John Meares	59	(3)
Charles Barkley Discovers the ``Long Lost Strait''	62	(1)
Wilbrecht Combines the Discoveries of Cook with those of the Russians	63	(1)
Peter Pond and His Northwest Passage	64	(1)
The French Send La Perousse in Cook's Wake	65	(1)
Joseph Billing's Russian Expedition	66	(1)
Spain Attempts to Secure the Pacific Northwest	67	(1)
The Alaskan Voyage of Martinez and Haro	67	(1)
The Spanish Occupy Nootka	67	(1)
The Nootka Incident	68	(1)
The Fidalgo Expedition to Alaska in 1790	69	(1)
Manuel Quimper Explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca	70	(1)
Spanish Boundary Suggestions	70	(2)
Francisco Eliza's Expedition Reaches the Straight of Georgia	72	(3)
In Cook's Footsteps-The Malaspina Expedition	75	(1)
Caamano's Voyage to Alaska	76	(1)
Galiano and Valdes-the Last Spanish Voyage of Exploration to the Northwest	77	(2)
The Relacion	79	(1)
The Spanish Policy of Secrecy	79	(1)
The Maps of Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra	80	(2)
The First French Fur-Trading Venture	82	(1)
Robert Gray Discovers the Columbia	82	(1)
Joseph Ingraham and the Journal of the Hope	83	(2)
George Vancouver's Voyage of Discovery	85	(1)
Vancouver's Instructions	85	(1)
Vancouver on the Northwest Coast	85	(5)
George Vancouver's Maps	90	(1)
Vancouver's Surveying Instruments and Mapping Methods	91	(3)
The Last Speculative Map	94	(1)
Ac ko mok ki's Map	94	(1)
Alexander Mackenzie-the First Crossing of North America	95	(1)
The First Russian Circumnavigation	96	(1)
Lewis and Clarke's Overland Trek to the Pacific	97	(4)
Simon Fraser Follows His River to the Sea	101	(1)
Astoria - The First American Settlement	102	(2)
David Thompson - Canada's Great Mapmaker	104	(3)
Why Were Thompson's Maps So Accurate?	107	(1)
Russian America	108	(3)
Novo Archangel'sk- the Capital of Russian America	111	(1)
The Hudson's Bay Company and Fort Langley	112	(1)
The First Map of the British Columbia Interior	113	(1)
Jedediah Smith, Mountain Man	114	(1)
The Travels of Peter Skene Ogden Hall Kelley and the American Settlement of Oregon	115	(3)
Senator Linn's Bill to Occupy Oregon	118	(1)
Charles Wilkes and the U.S. Exploring Expedition	119	(2)
John Charles Fremont and the Oregon Trail	121