Original Map of the Republic of Texas, California and Mexico featured-selections

Original Map of the Republic of Texas, California and Mexico featured-selectionsThis rare English map Texas, California and Mexico is beautifully engraved with a hand colored border. Texas is shown in the Republic configuration with the western border depicted as the Rio Grande River to its source, a claim established by the treaty Santa Anna signed after his defeat at the battle of San Jacinto. Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos were all within the official borders of the Republic of Texas. The vast Independent Republic of Texas

Lyall was given full power to represent all British commercial interests

Clearly shown is the El Camino Real or the “King’s Road” which was the sole land route linking Texas to French (and later) American Louisiana and then south to the wagon roads that led to the distant capital of Mexico City

“The Independence of Texas was formally declared in March 1836

including many towns and rivers

make marvelous compliments to the X

Captain Scott commissioned an Italian immigrant to paint the chosen design on a piece of blue silk

which had completed a line between Hempstead and Brenham which extended on to Austin in the early 1870s

by William Scott

The Texas Company (Texaco) and Gulf Oil

A wealth of information is detailed “back East” including roads

000 acres was granted to Stephen Wilson

This original engraved map contains a wealth of information valued by any prospective immigrant