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Show ers. There are no state-line demarcations, demarca-tions, but on each state he has painted paint-ed the official seal and flower, and dotted about over the map are small paintings of historic happenings and personages. A job as a nevspaper cartoonist aroused his interest in art. Next he turned to more serious art and studied at the Chicago Art I Institute and from that he turned to ' architecture and drafting. It was while working as a draftsman drafts-man in Buffalo in 1914 that the idea for his map came to hjm and he continued working on it when he went into his father's lumber business. busi-ness. ... Labors 26 Years on Old Map of America Former Cartoonist Pictures History of Country. DENVER. If Fred J. Kingan were so inclined he would make an interesting teacher. His pupils' wouldn't need books. All they would have to do would be to look at a giant map Kingan, retired lumberman, has completed in his spare time:. ... On the map measuring 15 feet in length and 8 feet in height Kingan has pictured a visual history of the discovery, exploration and early settlement set-tlement of North America. Started on a much smaller scale and as a hobby to fulfill a desire to know more about the early history of the nation, the map has grown far beyond his early plans and now represents nearly 26 years of research re-search and seven years of painstaking painstak-ing drawing and painting. Starting with Leif Erickson's voyage voy-age in 1001, he has depicted in 14 colors all the major voyages of discovery, dis-covery, the explorations of the Cab-ots, Cab-ots, Coronado, De Soto and so on down to Lewis and Clark, Pike, Fremont, Custer and scores of oth- |
