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The Rocky Mountain Map Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of maps and other items of cartographic interest. The Society was formed in 1991 and is based in Denver, Colorado.  Upcoming meetings, past events and other information can be found at the tabs above. We hope to see you soon!

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Announcements:​​​

  • RMMS Lecture Openings

    • ​We still have some open slots in our 2025 lecture schedule. If you are interested in giving a talk, or know someone who would be a good fit, please contact Vincent.louis.szilagyi@gmail.com. Any and all map related topics are welcome, as are any level of speaker experience. Thank you!

  • Mapping the Sectional Crisis

    • Date/Time: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 @ 5:30 PM

    • Historians rightly treat the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 as a turning point in American life, when the prospect of slavery’s expansion into the west galvanized opposition in the halls of Congress and across the northern states. But far less attention has been paid to the foundational role that maps played in this crisis. Whether used in mass meetings, broadsides, newspapers, or pamphlets, maps visualized the threat slavery posed to the nation’s future, and in the process birthed a broad anti-slavery coalition that ultimately elected Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. Join us to explore how political maps were designed to mobilize the electorate in the 1850s, reshaping visions of the American west and—by extension—the nation itself.

    • Susan Schulten is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Denver, where she has taught since 1996. She is the author of A History of America in 100 Maps (2018); Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (2012), and The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 (2001), all published by the University of Chicago Press. She is also co-editor of Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People’s History (Oxford University Press, 2018), and, most recently, author of Emma Willard: Maps of History (2022). Her work has been funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

    • Meeting place:

      • PLEASE NOTE: We will offer this program in person and via Zoom.


         

      • History Colorado Center, downtown Denver. Please click here for parking information. Program will be in the MDC Room, on the 4th floor. Please enter the building at the main (front) entrance.

      • Please register and get a FREE ticket for entry to History Colorado for this event (Register Here) 

      • Zoom information to be posted soon.

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  • ​New Feature in Colorado Magazine: “Lost and Found – Rediscovering Colorado’s Earliest Records” by RMMS member Larry Obermesik

    • ​We’re excited to share an engaging piece from Colorado magazine titled “Lost and Found: How my pandemic pastime led me to rediscover some of Colorado’s earliest records.” Over the course of the pandemic, RMMS member Larry Obermesik turned a quiet hobby into a remarkable journey through archives, unearthing forgotten maps, journals, and documents that shed new light on the early days of Colorado’s settlement.

    • You may remember that Larry presented the story to RMMS last year of Daniel Jenks, the early Colorado gold miner, from the journal Larry discovered in the Library of Congress. Larry has gone on to do amazing research on the Jenks family and uncovered important documents of broader importance to share with other researchers.

    • Article linked here

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  • The Rocky Mountain Map Society has a YouTube Page now! Past talks are available to view whenever you like. Check it out!

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  • Our friend John Docktor has a wonderful list of all upcoming map events, not just in the USA, but across the pond as well. Please check it out!​

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