(Colorado) Nell's Topographical Map of the State of Colorado ~Catalog 62~ with a nice sense of

with a nice sense of presentation and decorative cartouche

It was with the arrival of a few miners getting off the boat from Alaska with bags of gold in San Francisco that the Klondyke Gold Rush began in July of 1897

Shows the county and provincial borders and is hand colored

An inset shows the "Environs of Naples"

and bold printed lines show the extent of the railroads at the time

(Colorado) Nell's Topographical Map of the State of Colorado ~Catalog 62~ with a nice sense of(Colorado) Nell's Topographical Map of the State of Colorado Serving on the survey crew of George Wheeler, Louis Nell had the first hand opportunity to review the West, mile by mile, when it was still primitive. After his duties came to an end, he chose to settle in Colorado, got married and began publishing high quality maps of his adopted home state. You can almost immediately recognize his fine, precise style from his work under Wheeler, and this