Arizona & New Mexico Map 1882 Township Print - Phoenix, Tucson, Santa Fe, Albuquerque

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., working through Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. of Philadelphia, issued this Arizona and New Mexico sheet in 1882, part of his New General Atlas published in 1886. This printing is hand-colored with relief shown through hachures and marks Indian and military reservations directly on the map alongside inhabited places and railroads, a level of specific detail most general atlases left out. The sheet maps Arizona and New Mexico jointly, showing settlements, railroads, and drainage across a region still largely organized around territorial governance.

Indian reservation boundaries are marked across both territories, naming specific counties including Yavapai, Maricopa, and Pima in Arizona and Santa Fe and Lincoln in New Mexico, a direct record of how the land was actually divided and governed in the early 1880s. Military reservation boundaries appear alongside the tribal ones, reflecting the continued army presence across the Southwest during this period. Railroads thread through the more developed portions of both territories, an early but expanding network. Together the reservation boundaries, the counties, and the railroads sketch two territories whose land was still organized as much around tribal and military boundaries as civilian settlement.

For an Arizona or New Mexico family with roots in either territory, or a collector building out the Southwest's maps across the decades, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries Arizona and New Mexico separately from Cram's 1893 and 1883 editions, and New Mexico Territory, then encompassing Arizona, from Rogers & Johnston's earlier 1857 sheet elsewhere in this collection; this 1882 Mitchell sheet is the only one of the group to mark both Indian and military reservation boundaries by name across both territories. It's printed unframed and available in a range of sizes to fit whatever wall it's headed for.