(U.S.) Map of the Northern Parts of the United States of America colorado roads reaching as far as Madison

reaching as far as Madison Wisconsin

just prior to the Gadsden purchase

Image size is approximately 17 x 32 (inches)

but in the decades that would follow

Mankind is no longer dependent on water or land to travel

(U.S.) Map of the Northern Parts of the United States of America colorado roads reaching as far as Madison(U. S.) Map of the Northern Parts of the United States of America, Abraham Bradley, 1802 While this is an early map showing the important postal routes of the young nation, done by the post master of the time, it's those primitive numbered territories in the west that first catch ones eye. With a small "New Connecticut" on the southern banks of Lake Erie, it finds itself in the midst of familiar borders to today's Ohio, and neighboring Indiana,