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HOOD, WASHINGTON, Captain . Map of the United States Territory of Oregon West of the Rocky Mountains, Exhibiting the various Trading Depots or Forts occupied by the British Hudson Bay Company connected with the Western and northwestern Fur Trade. Compiled in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers from the latest authorities under the direction of Col. J. J. Abert. Washington 1838. Lithographed map, single sheet, 467 x 546 mm. (18 3/8 x 21 3/8 in.), right-hand blank margin partly cut away, light foxing, dampstain to lower corner . Topographic map by W. I. Stone after M. H. Stansbury, showing the Oregon Territory from Dixon's Entrance off the coast of present-day British Columbia south to the Monterey Peninsula and east of the Rockies to the approximate longitude of present-day Garden City, Kansas and North Platte, Nebraska. Phillips Maps , p. 641; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, p. 260; cf. Graff/Storm 4380 and Wagner-Camp 69c. One of the earliest printed maps of the Oregon Territory, copied from the southwest quadrant of John Arrowsmith's 1832 map of British North America. Arrowsmith's map was the first to accurately depict the relative positions of the Columbia and Snake rivers. Hood compiled his map "in 1838 to illustrate Senator Lewis Linn's bill authorizing the President to occupy that territory... [I]t adds little new information [to Arrowsmith's map] except for the delineation of the northern boundary of Oregon Territory along the forty-ninth parallel of latitude" (Schwartz and Ehrenberg). The map was reissued in later government reports in 1842 and 1843.