Northern Plains Map 1986 Side 2

Published in December 1986, this map of the Northern Plains represents Side Two in a two-map set in the "Making of America" series. Multiple maps illustrate the region's change from the buffalo ranges and hunting grounds of the Plains Indian tribes to the agriculture, petroleum, mining, and manufacturing industries today.

The 1986 Northern Plains map Side 2 features:
• A historical overview of the region
• Five maps detailing the history of the region with information on tribal cultures, the arrival of the horse, land grants, railroads, buffalo ranges, Indian reservations, metals mining, bonanza farming, land use, manufacturing, petroleum production and more
• Text about each historical period illustrated
• Three maps showing population changes in the region including the settlement areas in 1860 and 1890, the ethnicities of the settlers in 1910, and the reduction of the great Sioux reservation
• Colorful illustrations

Coverage Area: Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, northern Nebraska, northern Iowa, southern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, southern Ontario