This map collection is associated with the Leslie Hewes manuscript collection. Hewes was a geography professor who collected a wide variety of maps, including township maps (ca. 1937) of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, on which Hewes plotted the following data: which groups (categorized by degree of Indian blood, intermarried citizens, or freedmen) settled which allotments, along with the classification of these allotments and the appraised value per acre of each. Hewes used the information included on these maps to write his dissertation, “The Geography of the Cherokee Country of Oklahoma,” at the University of California in 1940. There are many township and range maps of areas throughout the midwest and western states of America.