ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on The Map of the Country Drained by the Mississippi, completed by Stephen Harriman Long in 1822, which represented the results of his field observations over the course of 18 months in command of an exploratory expedition organized by the War Department in collaboration with the American Philosophical Society. Balancing mimesis with invention in Map of the Country Drained by the Mississippi, Long combined narrative commentary and figuration with more modern modes of symbolic abstraction.
