36" x 72" Display Map

This large map titled "Southern Route Trails to California, 1775-1857" was created for an Oregon-California Trails Association symposium in Yuma, Arizona in January of 2009. Patricia Etter, noted authority on southern emigrant trails, collaborated with me on the map. It was on display in the registration area during the meetings and was then donated to the city of Yuma.

12"x18" Map with Interpretive Text

This is a smaller version of the OCTA map above, produced for sale at the 2009 Yuma symposium. At the bottom are brief descriptions of each of the important trails shown. This map may still be available at the Yuma Historical Society or directly from OCTA at http://octa-trails.org/

Book by Patricia Etter

This is one of several maps I made for the book California Odyssey: An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails", 1849, by William R. Goulding.  Edited by Patricia A. Etter with a foreword by Howard R. Lamar (Arthur H. Clark Company, an Imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) 

The Trail to Cooke's Well

This was made to illustrate my own article Wells in the Desert: Retracing the Mexican War Trails of Kearny and Cooke Through Baja California. Publication pending in the Journal of Arizona History.

Book by Andrew Wallace and Richard Hevly

One of six maps created for the book From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition, Edited by Andrew Wallace and Richard H. Hevly (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007).

Book by Albert Bates

An example of the maps in Jack Swilling: Arizona's Most Lied About Pioneer, by Albert R. Bates (Tucson: Wheatmark, 2007).
 

 

Beale Road, 1857

A 16" x 20" map of the Beale Wagon Road from Albuquerque to Fort Mojave designed for a display at El Morro National Monument to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the road.

Book by Deborah Lawrence

One of the maps made for Writing the Trail: Five Women's Frontier Narratives, By Deborah Lawrence (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006).

 
   

The title map at top was made to illustrate changes in the courses of the Colorado and Gila Rivers for my Wells in the Desert article.

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