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TEXAS, MEXICO, AND THE RIO GRANDE IN MAPS. GREGG, JOSIAH. 1806-1850. A Map of the Indian Territory Northern Texas and New Mexico. New York: Sidney Morse and Samuel Breese, 1844 (but later re-print).
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TEXAS, MEXICO, AND THE RIO GRANDE IN MAPS.
GREGG, JOSIAH. 1806-1850. A Map of the Indian Territory Northern Texas and New Mexico. New York: Sidney Morse and Samuel Breese, 1844 (but later re-print).
Engraved map printed in black with hand-colored pink highlight along Texas border, 363 x 434 mm sheet size. Backed with Japan paper, trimmed unevenly at left margin, fold creases, minor staining.
WITH: Mapa del Rio Grande desde su desmbocadura en el Golfo hasta San Vicente, Presidio Antiguo. Monterey, Mexico: M.T. Martinez, 1873. Engraved map, with hand-colored highlighting in blue, pink and yellow, 864 x 765 mm. Laid down to Japan paper, closed tears along fold creases, light browning.
WITH: Copiado del Mapa de S Mc. L. Staples, en 1828; del Mapa de Nigra de San Martin.... Monterey, Mexico: 1873. Engraved map with hand-colored highlights in blue and yellow at borders, rivers outlined in red, 435 x 293 mm. Laid down to Japan paper, partially re-margined at left edge.
All of these maps are captioned similarly in Spanish in the lower margin, indicating a printing date no earlier than 1873, and referring to the location of Indian populations along the Rio Grande, and the significance of those locations in their ability to "harass" Mexican territory. These were probably prepared in Mexico in relation to the border disputes that grew up out of the changing course of the Rio Grande after the Mexican War and the separation of Texas from Mexico. The constant erosion and natural evolution of the river's course created problems for determining national boundaries, which were not completely resolved until the Chamizal Convention of 1964. Josiah Gregg's map originally appeared in Commerce of the Prairies: or, The Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, printed by Morse and Breese using their proprietary cerographic engraving process, but this example appears to have been printed later, with the notation in Spanish in the lower margin: "This map comprises the North, Northeast and Northwest of Texas. Having been formed when Texas belonged to Mexico, it shows today that the residences of the Indians since 1848 have been in the United States, and before that were sometimes in that republic, and sometimes in Mexico, but always on the left bank of the Rio Grande."
Engraved map printed in black with hand-colored pink highlight along Texas border, 363 x 434 mm sheet size. Backed with Japan paper, trimmed unevenly at left margin, fold creases, minor staining.
WITH: Mapa del Rio Grande desde su desmbocadura en el Golfo hasta San Vicente, Presidio Antiguo. Monterey, Mexico: M.T. Martinez, 1873. Engraved map, with hand-colored highlighting in blue, pink and yellow, 864 x 765 mm. Laid down to Japan paper, closed tears along fold creases, light browning.
WITH: Copiado del Mapa de S Mc. L. Staples, en 1828; del Mapa de Nigra de San Martin.... Monterey, Mexico: 1873. Engraved map with hand-colored highlights in blue and yellow at borders, rivers outlined in red, 435 x 293 mm. Laid down to Japan paper, partially re-margined at left edge.
All of these maps are captioned similarly in Spanish in the lower margin, indicating a printing date no earlier than 1873, and referring to the location of Indian populations along the Rio Grande, and the significance of those locations in their ability to "harass" Mexican territory. These were probably prepared in Mexico in relation to the border disputes that grew up out of the changing course of the Rio Grande after the Mexican War and the separation of Texas from Mexico. The constant erosion and natural evolution of the river's course created problems for determining national boundaries, which were not completely resolved until the Chamizal Convention of 1964. Josiah Gregg's map originally appeared in Commerce of the Prairies: or, The Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, printed by Morse and Breese using their proprietary cerographic engraving process, but this example appears to have been printed later, with the notation in Spanish in the lower margin: "This map comprises the North, Northeast and Northwest of Texas. Having been formed when Texas belonged to Mexico, it shows today that the residences of the Indians since 1848 have been in the United States, and before that were sometimes in that republic, and sometimes in Mexico, but always on the left bank of the Rio Grande."