Texas State Archives Map Collection
Map of Texas Containing the Latest Grants and Discoveries
| Date: | 1836 |
| Publisher: | J.A. James and Company, Cincinati, Ohio, 1836. |
| Cartographer: |
Lee, E.F. |
| Scale: | 1 inch = 75 miles |
| Size: | 32 cm x 22 cm |
| Type of Map: | general |
| Format: | color, engraved, lithographed, printed |
| Language: | English |
| AC Number: | 01598 |
| Photo Media: | -- None Listed -- |
| File Size: | 10.95 MB |
Map of Texas Containing the Latest Grants and Discoveries Image:
Description:
Covers parts of Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Nueva Leon in addition to Texas. Shows rivers, mountainous areas, land grants, colonies, forts, roads, route and trails, notes on wildlife, location of Indian tribes and villages, mines, notes on Colonel Benjamin Rush Milam's death, and the site of General Jose Alvarez de Toledo y Dubois's defeat in 1813. There is a note about the Rio del Norte, or Grande - its navigability and its possibilities as a southwestern boundary of Texas.
This map appears in The History of Texas, by David B. Edward, (Cincinati, 1836, and 1967).
9/27/83
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