Texas State Archives Map Collection
A Map of the Internal Provinces of New Spain
Date: | 1807 |
Publisher: | -- None Listed -- |
Cartographer: |
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, Captain, U.S. |
Scale: | 1 inch = 75 miles |
Size: | 45 cm x 46 cm |
Type of Map: | general |
Format: | black & white, engraved, lithographed, printed |
Language: | English |
AC Number: | 01438 |
Photo Media: | -- None Listed -- |
File Size: | 23.93 MB |
Description:
Covers the provinces of Texas, New Mexico, Nuevo Santander, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Durango, Sinoloa, Baja California, Sonora, and Nueva Viscaya. Shows rivers, springs, mountainous areas, Spanish and American towns and settlements, missions, capitols of provinces, presidios, forts, copper mines, routes and trails, and Indian tribes and villages. There are notes regarding wildlife and topography, and incidents occurring along the expedition.
Long. 96 - 116 deg.
This map is published in Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans., La Platte and Pierre Juan Rivers; Performed by the order of the Government of the United States during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807, and a Tour through the Interior Parts of New Spain, When Conducted Through These Provinces, by order of the Captain - General in the year 1807, by Major Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Philadephia, 1810), plate III. Maps 1436-1437 and 1454 are also part of this series of maps found in the book.
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