"A New Map of Texas with the Contiguous American and Mexican States"

by J. H. Young, copper engraving with hand-coloring, published by S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia, 1835.
Float-mounted with mat and glazed.
12-3/4" x 15-1/2", framed 24-1/2" x 27-1/2"

Provenance: Riddell Rare Maps and Fine Prints, Dallas, Texas; Private collection, Mobile, Alabama.

Notes: This is one of the rarest and most important maps of early Texas. Published in 1835, it is the first to recognize Texas’ independence from Mexico. Published in 1835 at the outset of the Texan War of Independence, it represents one of the most comprehensive views of Anglo-American settlements and involvement in the territory. Based after the “Father of Texas”, Stephen F. Austin’s 1830 watershed map and David Burr’s equally important one of 1833, it is an important historical record that depicts the Austin Colony, numerous land grants and colonies (captured in bright colors) and key settlements that illustrate American developments and homesteads, such as San Antonio de Bexas, sight of the Battle of the Alamo fought a year later in 1836, Brazoria Harrisburg, future location of Houston and first provisional capital of the Lone Star territory, the “Indian Territory” (now Oklahoma state), and Fort Towson, a strategic U.S. army outpost on the “Indian Frontier”. In addition to the wealth of information provided within the land grants, which would later be developed into Texas counties, the map includes key roads, routes, riverways and three text box insets that elaborate on the grants and geographical bounty of the new land, enticing prospective Americans with “50,000 acres” of land “at the minimum price of 10 dollars” with “the finest stock” and “herds by the hundreds.”

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