{"id":390,"date":"2009-10-24T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2009\/10\/24\/map-of-the-week-7-montana-1911\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T12:48:00","slug":"map-of-the-week-7-montana-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2009\/10\/24\/map-of-the-week-7-montana-1911\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Week #7 &#8211; Montana 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">State of Montana &#8211; Department of the Interior General Land Office Map &#8211; 1911<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnlibrariesmagic\/4016983852\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 500px;height: 338px\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2676\/4016983852_22b42411db.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>While searching for maps of Yellowstone National Park, this gorgeous map of Montana was discovered while exploring the map collection at MAGIC. This 1911 map includes Indian Reserves, National Parks, Reclamation Projects and U.S. Land Offices as well as several other features.<\/p>\n<p>This map includes railroad lines and it is clearly visible that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Pacific_Railway\">Northern Pacific Railroad<\/a> has a spur line which provides passengers with access to Yellowstone National Park. The desire to connect Yellowstone via rail is clearly evident in the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RVg8USuI7RIC&amp;pg=PR1#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\">History of Northern Pacific Railroad<\/a> by Eugene V. Smalley in1883 which is included below.<\/p>\n<p>Explore this map in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnlibrariesmagic\/4016983852\/sizes\/o\/\"> original size view<\/a> (this may take a few moments to load) and share the amazing features relevant to your research with us by posting a comment.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Montana &#8211; Department of the Interior General Land Office Map &#8211; 1911 While searching for maps of Yellowstone National Park, this gorgeous map of Montana was discovered while exploring the map collection at MAGIC. This 1911 map includes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2009\/10\/24\/map-of-the-week-7-montana-1911\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1007,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}