Arizona & New Mexico Map 1867 Regional Print - Tucson, Santa Fe, Prescott

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. published this map of Arizona and New Mexico in Philadelphia in 1867, continuing the family publishing business his father had built since relocating to the city around 1830. The younger Mitchell had taken sole charge of the firm in 1860, releasing his own New General Atlas that year and steering the company's output through the Civil War and into the rapid territorial reorganization of the postwar American Southwest. This attractive regional sheet is colored by county and finished with a decorative border typical of Mitchell's house style, recording towns, roads, railroads and rivers at a moment when western territorial boundaries were evolving so quickly that each year's edition of the map held genuinely new information.

Tucson anchors southern Arizona as its largest and most established town, while Prescott, chosen as territorial capital for its central mountain location, governs the newer mining districts further north. Santa Fe continues to serve as New Mexico's capital along the upper Rio Grande, a seat of government reaching back through Spanish and Mexican rule long before American annexation. The Colorado and Gila rivers trace the region's major watercourses across an otherwise arid landscape, and the map's county lines, still few and expansive, reflect how sparsely both territories remained organized only a few years after the Civil War's end.

This map makes a fitting gift for an Arizona or New Mexico family with roots in the territorial Southwest, or for a collector tracking how rapidly the region's county boundaries shifted decade to decade. Alongside the store's other Southwest territorial sheets from Lloyd and Whiteman, Hicks & Whiteman, this Mitchell edition offers a distinctly American commercial-atlas perspective on the same young territories. It is offered unframed in a full range of sizes, from a compact print for a study to a large-format piece for an office or den.