{"product_id":"kansas-in-1874-topeka-wichita-lawrence","title":"Kansas in 1874 - Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Kansas map is part of Asher \u0026amp; Adams' New Commercial, Topographical, and Statistical Atlas and Gazetteer of the United States, published in New York in 1874 — one of the first American atlases built specifically around railroad lines. This copy is the most complete late-1874 printing, electrotyped at the Franklin Type Foundry and bound in quarter leather with gilt-stamped boards. Kansas had earned its \"Bleeding Kansas\" reputation in the 1850s as pro- and anti-slavery settlers fought for control of the territory before the Civil War even began, and by 1874 the state's postwar identity was shifting again — its western plains becoming the setting for the cattle-drive boom, with railheads like Abilene and, soon, Dodge City turning Kansas into the destination for Texas longhorns driven north along the Chisholm Trail, Nebraska bordering the map to the north and the Indian Territory to the south.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe map's dense township grid reflects the rapid survey of Kansas farmland under the Homestead Act, while the newly chartered Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was only just beginning to push its line west across the state — a quieter, farm-and-rail story running alongside the cattle-town boom, and one that would soon turn Kansas into a wheat state rather than a cattle one. The map's publication also fell in the same year Rocky Mountain locust swarms devastated Kansas crops, a hardship the tidy township lines give no hint of. Like the rest of the atlas, the map is set against dual Greenwich and Washington prime meridians and marks towns chiefly where they sit on or near a rail line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis suits a Kansas family well, a Sunflower State transplant, or a collector of Gilded Age railroad atlases. There's no earlier Bradford-era Kansas sheet in this collection to compare it to — the territory wasn't organized until 1854 and didn't reach statehood until 1861, so this 1874 map sits close to the beginning of Kansas's mapped history rather than revising an older survey. The print is offered unframed and in multiple sizes, well suited to anyone with roots in the cattle-town era of Kansas history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755318603,"sku":"SKU1347-16x20","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755351371,"sku":"SKU1347-A2","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755384139,"sku":"SKU1347-18x24","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755416907,"sku":"SKU1347-50x70","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755449675,"sku":"SKU1347-A1","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755482443,"sku":"SKU1347-24x32","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755515211,"sku":"SKU1347-70x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755547979,"sku":"SKU1347-75x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58509755580747,"sku":"SKU1347-A0","price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1347.jpg?v=1789651704","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/en-us\/products\/kansas-in-1874-topeka-wichita-lawrence","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}