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Table of Contents A Journal of the MAP AND GEOGRAPHY ROUND TABLE of the AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION No.4 1990 Table of Contents Articles wu • Pursuing the Cheyenne: Mapping Trihes, Trails, the 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork 3 By George F. McCleary. Jr. Preserving Maps in Qnantity: The Experience of the New York State Historic Map Preservation Project 29 By David Y. Allen Computers and Geographic Information Access, 37 By Daniel O. Holmes Book Reviews II II!I:; Historical Atlas of Texas 49 By Peter B. Illes The Mapping of the Great Lakes in the Sevente enth Century: twenty-two maps from the George S. and Nancy B.Parker Colle ct ion 51 By Jon L. Walstrom The Atlas of Pennsylvania 53 By Rich Boardman Milepost 28 Forthcoming Events 55 Index to Advertisers 52 Information for Contributors 56 From the editor. •• erving as Meridian's first editor has been a privilege and a Swonderfulleaming experience . Working for the last three years MERIDIAN with its dedicated, hardworking staff and helpful, distinguished editorial board and consulting editors has been a pleasure. Looking back, we can all take more than a little pride in having published four issues of an attractive and informative journal, and one which has claimed a place in the grow ing field of cartographic and geographic information dissemination and management. EDITOR With the appeara nce of this issue, it is gratifying to see the range Philir Hoehn of articles widen to include papers on a carto graphic imagery storage The University 0 California, Berkeley and retrieval system, a map conse rvation project, and the preparation PRODUCTION MANAGER of maps to illustrate a book.Unfortunately, pieces in the previous Donna P. Koe pp three issues were weighted too heavily toward historical topics. To University of Kansas be sure , historical matters continue to be important and will possibly SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER even dominate the journal 's pages, but papers on a variety of Peter L. Stark subjects are required to satisfy the needs of Meridian's diverse University of Oregon readership. Let me take this final opportunity to rem ind you, our readers, that a steady flow of contributions is vital to maintaining and ADVERTISING MANAGER David A. Cobb improving the quality of Meridian. University of Illinois I am delighted to welcome George F. McCleary, Jr. as Meridian's new editor, Dr. McCleary is no stranger to our readers: he has been REVIEW EDITOR a consulting editor since the journal's inception as well as the writer Br ent Allison of two review article s, plus a major piece in the current issue. I Univers ity of Minnesota formal ly offer our thanks for his past contributions and extend him EDITORIAL BOARD our best wishes as new editor. He may be reached at: Department of Ralph E. E hre nbe rg Geography, 213 Lindley Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Library of Congress 66045-2121 (phone: 913 864-5143). Ali ce C. Hudson New York Public Library Philip Hoehn Mary L. Larsgaar d University of California, Santa Barbara Robert S. Martin ADVERTISING STATEMENT Louisiana State University Meridian accepts advert ising of products or services as it improves Char les A. Seavey University of Arizona communication between vendor and buyer. Meridian will adhere to Sta nley D. Stevens all ethical and com monly accepted advertising practices and re serves University of California, Santa Cruz the right to reject any advertisement deemed not relevant or consistent with the goals of the Map and Geography Round Table. CONSULTING EDITORS Enquiries should be addressed to David A. Cobb, Advertising lI elenJ ane Annstr ong Manager, Map & Geography Library, University of Illinois, 1408 University of Florida Tony Ca mpbe ll West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Phone 217 333-0827. The British Library Larry Carver University of California, Santa Barbara REVIEWS Mich ael P. Conze n The University of Chicago Publishers are invited to send review copies of their books, maps Edward n. Dah l and other items to the review editor. Brent Allison, Map Library, National Archives of Canada S76 O.M . Wilson Library, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Larry Cr us e University of California. San Diego Minnesota 55455. Manuscripts of rev iews should be addressed to the John B. Ga rve r, J r. review editor. Readers wishing to review materials for Meridian are National Geographic Society invited to write the review editor indicating their special areas of Frand s Herbert interest and qualifications. Royal Geographical Society Robert W. Karrow. Jr. The Newberry Library George F. McCleary, Jr. SUBSCRIPTIONS University of Kansas Meridian is published twice yearly. To subscribe, or to change an Barbara B. McCor kle Yale University address , please write to Christine E. Kellen, Subscri ption Manager, John T. Mon ckton Map Collection, Univers ity of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ 85721. J.T. Monckton Ltd.. Chicago Subscription rates are $20.00 for individual, ($25.00 foreign); $25.00 Gary W. North for an institution, ($30.00 foreign), Individuals must prepay, United States Geological Survey Na ncy J . P ruett institutions may be billed. All foreign subscriptions must be paid in Sandia National Laboratories. Albuquerque U.S. dollars. Make your check payable to ALA/MAGERT. No rman J .W. Thrower University of California, Los Angeles Alberta Auringer Wood MERIDIAN A ~mi ·"""'" joumaI 01 <br Map and ~ phy Round Tab!< Memorial University of Newfoundland Fra nces Woodward University of British Columbia Pursuing the Cheyenne Mapping Tribes , Trails , the 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork By George F. McCleary, Jr. Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers is a of Cheyennes eventually came into con­ story about the Cheyennes, a military flict with immigrant Native Americans expedition which pursued them, and the who had, in the ninetee nth century, been battle which resulted. The group of placed in reservations along the eastern student cartographers (they eventualty be­ boundary of their range; armed with came The Map Associates) in the Depart­ modern rifles these reservation Native ment of Geography at the University of Americans further depleted the supply of Kansas engaged in a creative process with buffalo and other game animals; white the work's author, Wiltiam Y. Chalfant, traders, trappers, and wagon train par­ to produce historical maps which would ties had already taken a significant toll. illustrate his text. The project saw an For half a century many people had unusually lengthy author-cartographer in­ passed through the plains along the trails teraction, as well as challenges of data to the west and southwes t. The Califor­ gathering, map compilation, and design. nia gold rush, which began in 1849, and The maps which resulted exemplifya the rush to the Colorado fields which genre of historical cartography and raise soon followed, were catalysts , and mili­ questions about theaccuracy of maps tary forts and scattered trading posts which are used simply to illustrate works became the first harbingers of perma­ of this type. nent white settlement. This was a period of deteriorating relationships between whites and Native Americans. Although a he Cheyenne-they called treaty had been signed in 1851, hostile Tthemselves the Tsistsistas, a west­ feelings on both sides multiplied, and ern branch of the Algonquian-speaking from 1853 to 1856 there were "a series people, moved to the plains from lands of unfortunate incidents that spelled the east of the Mississippi River. Adjusting end of peace and the beginning of long My desire is to simply continuously to pres sures from stronger years of open warfare between the assist readers with ap­ tribes, they, with the acquisition of the United States and the Cheyenne nation" propriate maps so that horse in the mid-eighteenth century, (Chalfant 1989, 41) . they can understand abandoned their semi-nomadic activi­ Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers is a the route . ..• know a little hit about the ter­ ties-agriculture, pottery-making, and story about the Cheyennes, a military rain encountered, the living in fixed villages, and became expedition which pursued them, and the places involved . etc. nomadic buffalo hunters. For severa l battle which resulted. The author, centuries, they shared with the Arap­ William Y. Chalfant, a lawyer from ahoes a large area of present-day Kan­ Hutchinson, Kansas, approaching the sas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and cartographic group in the Department of the Dakotas. A gradual southward shift Geography at the University of Kansas, reduced contacts with the Crows, and stated his goals for the maps which brought them into contact with Kiowas, would illustrate his text: Comanches and Plains Apaches, who My desire is to simply assist readers eventually became friends and allies with appropriate maps so that theycan (Gassow, 1974 discusses this migration understand the route taken and, hope­ in detail; see, also, Grinnell 1915). fully from the text and pictures, know a Roaming within what appeared to be little bit about the terrain encountered, seemingly unending plains, filled with the places involved, etc. .. (Chalfant buffalo and antelope, the various bands 14January85). ~ MJ::RIll IAN4 3 The Expedition and its " laps west, was the first of a series of battles between the Army and the Cheyennes . Ordered in late 1856. the campaign Of those that would follow. the one at against the Cheyennes by the First Sand Creek in 1864. is probably the Cavalry of the United States Army, was most notorious (u. S. Congress 1865). to be undertaken. " as soon as it is Chalfant initiated the project in his first practicable. against those Indians . that lett er : they may be reduced to submission. and be compelled to release the captives My present concern is lor purposes 01 held by them, restore the property illustrating the line 01 march.
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