State of Louisiana Cape Ann just mentioning a Smithsonian article

just mentioning a Smithsonian article that "formed the Germinal Plan for the Construction of this Chart"

A large Missouri Territory includes Lewis & Clark's information

A solid reference for the time

While red borders abstractly separate the region in to geometric shapes

State of Louisiana Cape Ann just mentioning a Smithsonian articleState of Louisiana, GLO, 1879 Early in the 19th century the U. S. founded an agency to manage the surveying, platting and sale of the public lands in the western U. S. If you think back to the massive growth and acquisitions throughout the 19th century, it was an astounding challenge to manage. Spanning from Florida and the deep south, all the way west through the trans Mississippi lands, to the West Coast, it was hundreds of millions of acres.