Map of the Mississippi from St. Louis to the Marameck River

Description

In the time of the flatboats and the coming of the first steamboats documented so well through the early American navigational river guides, maps clearly indicated a future problem for St. Louis and its highly praised river harbor—the city was essentially on a peninsula which could become a remote island due to floods and other naturally occurring circumstances over time. The many islands and sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps.

This map was an inserted extra leaf in the 1811 edition of Zadok Cramer's Navigator.