Dec 08, 2022 - Sale 2624

Sale 2624 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(IDAHO TERRITORY -- GOLD MINING.) George Owens. Map of Boise Basin and Part of Ada, Alturas, and Owyhee Counties, I. T. Lithographed folding map of southwestern Idaho with an inset plan of the Owyhee Mines near Silver City and a panoramic view of Buena Vista Bar and Idaho City. 16 1/2x18 inches sheet size, left margin trimmed for binding; printed paper slip keying 32 locations to the Owyhee inset pasted on; fold repairs with small losses; Library of the University of California ink stamp on verso and perforation mark at lower right. San Francisco, 1865

Additional Details

Scarce record of the prosperous mining operations in Idaho Territory's Boise Basin in the early 1860s. The fine bird's eye view of Buena Vista and Idaho City mining districts shows the rapidly pioneered settlements laid out in the thick of the vast wilderness; a numbered legend indicates 32 mines and ranches within a 90 square mile area on the Jordan Creek south of the Snake River. Most of the sites shown here, experiencing such a boom at the time, are now ghost towns, or at least very near to it.

The map appeared in George Owens' General Directory and Business Guide of the Principal Towns East of the Cascade Mountains, for the Year 1865.