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Progress Map

Geological survey map of Texas and parts of New Mexico, showing the portions of Texas examined by Steruwitz, Comstock, Cummins, Walker, Taff, and Kennedy (marked in red). The map also includes Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), county lines, towns, roads, railroads, and bodies of water.
Date: 1891
Creator: Dumble, E. T.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Texas and part of New Mexico.

Map shows towns, wagon roads, explorers' routes, railroads, and military posts across Texas from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Fort Smith, Arkansas and from Chihuahua, Mexico to Opelousas, Louisiana; roads and structures, location of troops on battlefields. Includes list of authorities, coordinates of "stations," and notes on rivers. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:2,800,000], [ca. 1:26,700], and [ca. 1:10,500].
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad system.

Map shows extent of Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway system, town stops along ATSF railroad lines, major cities, and notable geographic features for the South Central and Southwest United States; [modern-day] Oklahoma is divided into "Oklahoma Territory" and "Indian Territory." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1899
Creator: American Bank Note Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brands, Vol. 2 (open access)

Brands, Vol. 2

Handwritten directory of brands associated with ranches mainly located in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Directory is arranged alphabetically by brand. Volume two covers U through Z, and the numerical brands.
Date: [1890..1899]
Creator: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brands, Vol. 1 (open access)

Brands, Vol. 1

Handwritten directory of brands associated with ranches mainly located in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Directory is arranged alphabetically by brand. Volume one covers A through T.
Date: [1890..1899]
Creator: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

A chart of the internal part of Louisiana : including all the hitherto unexplored Countries, lying between the River La Platte of the Missouri on the N: and the Red River on the I: the Mississippi East and the Mountains of Mexico West ; with a part of New Mexico & the Province of Texas.

Map shows route of exploration taken by the Zebulon Pike expedition along the Arkansas River and Red River. Includes reference and observational notes. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. No scale noted.
Date: 1895
Creator: Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

A map of the internal provinces of New Spain: the outlines are from the sketches of, but corrected and improved by Captain Zebulon M. Pike, who was conducted through that country, in the year 1807 by order of the Commandant General of those provinces.

Map shows the "boundary between the Vice Royalty and the Internal Provinces which are independent of the Vice Roy"; villages, roads, areas of Native American habitation, mining activity, and physical features for the northern provinces of New Spain; the Rio Colorado and the Rio del Norte [Rio Grande]. Includes notes and references. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:4,827,000].
Date: 1895
Creator: Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Topographic map of Trans Pecos Texas.

Map shows late nineteenth century towns, railroads, monuments, mountains, and geological composition of surface strata in the area of Texas that is west of the Pecos River. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: 1890
Creator: Wischetzky, R. von
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Las Cruces Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1891
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Las Cruces Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Hansford Land & Cattle Company Limited (open access)

The Hansford Land & Cattle Company Limited

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustration, decorative designs, and text reading: "Ranche in Hutchinson and Carson Counties, Texas"; "Ranche in Chaves County, N. M." in lithographic print by Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co. K. C., M. O. Letterhead contains the name J. M. Coburn, Gen'l Manager.
Date: 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History