Maps

Book designer Nathan Vyklicky created several bespoke maps for the book. Click on each below to zoom in. High-resolution PDFs can also be downloaded. Notes on their creation follow each map.

Small, circular maps on the title pages of the book’s four main parts adapt vintage cartography from relevant periods in Johnny Harris’ history.

Part i: Taking the Throne draws on an inset from Perry’s Mining Map of the Southern Dist. West Kootenay (1893), with lines converging on Sandon from around the globe. Read more about the full original map, one of the most beautiful pieces of Kootenaiana ever produced, here.

Part ii: Son of the South uses an 1864 map of the U.S.—with the Idaho border roughly correct for the time—from Scribner’s Statistical Atlas of the United States (1883).

Part iii: Noted and Picturesque Pioneer builds on the Rand McNally Project Relief Map of North America (undated, circa mid-20th century), signed by Ralph W. Berry, a decorated U.S. Geological Survey engineer who completed it shortly before his death in 1949.

Part iv: Sin and Reckoning refers to a portion of the large-format United States plate in Rand, McNally & Co.’s Enlarged Business Atlas (circa 1891).

In Part i, the map of Johnny’s route in March 1892 attempts to show Indigenous place names used by the peoples most associated with each locality. Sinixt (n’səl’xčin’) sources that were consulted include Native American Place Names along the Columbia River above Grand Coulee Dam, North Central Washington (2003, revised 2011) by the Colville Confederated Tribes’ History/Archaeology Program; the Sinixt təmxwúlaʔxw (2021) map from the Autonomous Sinixt; and an unpublished spelling document from the Salish School of Spokane. Ktunaxa sources include KtunaxaHomelands.com.

While the capitalization of n’səl’xčin’ place names follows guidance

from the Salish School of Spokane, it should be recognized that other groups favour full lower case as an expression of linguistic sovereignty. Responsibility for any errors is my own.

A pronunciation guide to n’səl’xčin’ place names can be found here.

The map reflects Shoshone County’s 1892 borders.

The accompanying map of Slocan Country mining claims makes extensive use of mineral rights data from iMapBC.

In Part ii, the map of Virginia slavery is based on the remarkable Map of Virginia: Showing the Distribution of Its Slave Population from the Census of 1860 (1861). Though such data visualizations may look modern, colour-coded maps of this type first appeared as early as 1826.

Details of the accompanying Fauquier County map are taken from Map of Fauquier County, Virginia (1934), published by the Warrenton Chamber of Commerce and itself redrawn from maps dating back at least as far as 1876.