Item Detail
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30946
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English
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Contextualizing Early Mormon Maps : A Cautionary Response
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Round Table : Cartography and the Founding of Salt Lake City
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Utah Histoical Quarterly
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2019
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87
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3
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Champaign, Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
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201-205
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In 2016, I received a phone call from Paul Cohen, who was enthusiastic about a map that a colleague had located. Paraphrasing the conversation, Cohen described a sheepskin map that was purportedly made by Henry Sherwood. Cohen was certain that the map was authentic and claimed that it was the very first map of Salt Lake City, predating Thomas Bullock’s maps drafted in mid-August 1847. If authentic, properly dated to early August of that year, and actually done by Sherwood, the sheepskin map would be truly significant find. [Author]