Wyoming Map 1883 Territorial Print - Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins

George Franklin Cram issued this Wyoming map in 1883 as part of his Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, published in Chicago by A.C. Shewey & Co. It's part of Cram's first mass-produced world atlas, a 65-map volume that helped put detailed, affordable geography into American households.

The map renders Wyoming Territory at a scale of roughly 1:2,240,000, with the state boundary in red and internal divisions in black, and relief shown through hachures. Yellowstone National Park, established just eleven years earlier as the country's first national park, is marked in the northwest corner, and the Wind River Indian Reservation is also named on the sheet. Wyoming Territory had granted women the right to vote back in 1869, the first place in the country to do so, a full fourteen years before this map was printed and decades before most of the rest of the nation would follow. Greenwich and Washington both appear as prime meridians.

A print like this suits anyone with Wyoming roots, an Equality State transplant who wants a piece of home, or a collector chasing Cram's earliest atlas maps state by state. It ships unframed and is offered in multiple sizes, an easy choice for a housewarming, birthday, or anniversary gift.