DESCRIPTION: Scarce second-edition example of Samuel King's pictorial historical map "God's Country - Pennsylvania's Last Frontier..." First published in 1951 this example is the revised edition of September 1955 [bottom center above the neatline]. Copyrighted by Samuel A. King, 510 First Street, Du Bois, PA.
The map covers a geographic area in central Pennsylvania from roughly Lock Haven to DuBois and north. Verso with ink stamps "GOD’S COUNTRY” and "Clearfield Sporting Goods Co." WorldCat records only four institutional holdings of the 1955 edition.
Samuel Albert King was a local historian and for many years taught at a local university.
In all Samuel King produced at least eight picto-historical maps of Pennsylvania, some maps with several editions in the 1950's and 1960's. "Gods Country" was King's first map. Seven of his later maps are reproduced and sold online by the Clearfield County Historical Society, but "God's Country" is not among the list. Titles of these other seven maps by King are:
- Cornplanter's Kingdom, 1951
- Heart of the Alleghenies, Central Pennsylvania's Vacationland, 1953
- Forest County for rest from urban fatigue, 1957
- Lore of the Last Frontier in Pennsylvania, 1960
- A Vacation Map of Potter County and Ole's Black Forest, 1973
- Freestone Fishing for Mountain Trout in northern Pennsylvania, 1977
- A Fun-roving Map of Pine Creek the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania
- More of God's Country, 1968
Note: Maps produced in the late 1960's and the 1970's credit King's wife gale as co-author.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1955
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Good.
Wear at folds. Small fold separations at margins repaired from the verso. Modest age toning. Three small holes at folds.
COLORING:
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 23
" x
17 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 90
PRICE: $250
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