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TITLE:
Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis & Clark

AUTHORS:
Benson, Guy
University of Virginia. Library
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

OTHER TITLES:
An exhibition of maps and navigational instruments
A perspective in maps from Columbus to Lewis & Clark

SUBJECT CATEGORIES:
History

SUBJECT KEYWORDS:
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
United States--Historical geography--Maps
United States--Maps--Exhibitions
United States--Maps to 1800
West (U.S.)
Exploration
19th Century
Nineteenth Century

SITE INCLUDES:

Thomas Jefferson's intellectual curiosity drew him into the three hundred-year-old quest to find a water route to Asia. To understand Jefferson's views of the West and the nature of the quest to the Pacific, the University of Virginia Library and the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation have put together an exhibition of maps and journals. Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark examines the planning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the cartographic tradition that made the expedition possible. The exhibition shows the evolving views of the American continent and the "Passage to the Indies" as they appear in maps up to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It focuses especially on the earliest cartographic representations of America and the Northwest Passage, the results of early expeditions to the Mississippi basin in search of a route to the Pacific Ocean, and the early exploration of the Pacific Northwest. The exhibition consists of over seventy items, most of which Thomas Jefferson owned in his personal library.

Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669
An Easy Communication Betwixt the River Meschacebe, and the South Sea Albemarle Adventurers
To the Western Ocean: Planning the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Observations of Latitude and Longitude at All Remarkable Points