Idaho in 1893 - Boise, Pocatello, Idaho Falls

Wood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York gave this map to shoppers in 1893, part of The Columbian World's Fair Atlas that Chicago publisher George F. Cram produced for that year's World's Fair and the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the New World.

This outline hand-colored map maps Idaho at a scale of roughly 1:2,250,000, with relief shown through hachure shading and an inset continuing the map beyond the main sheet. The map names the counties of Nez Perces, Shoshone, and Latah among its divisions, ground made rich by the silver and lead strikes of the Coeur d'Alene mining district that had drawn thousands of prospectors north just a few years earlier. The Snake River Plain, already being irrigated for farmland in the state's southern reaches, is traced across the lower portion of the sheet. It carries printed figures for the state's population and total area in square miles, with Greenwich and Washington marked as prime meridians.

A print like this suits anyone with Idaho roots, a family that settled in Nez Perce, Shoshone, or Latah county generations back, or a collector chasing a complete run of Cram's 1893 state maps. It ships unframed and is offered in multiple sizes, a fitting housewarming, birthday, or anniversary gift.