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Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, With the Regions Adjoining (open access)

Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, With the Regions Adjoining

Text with detailed description of the areas shown by the accompanying map, including geographical and cultural information.
Date: 1846
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

A new map of Texas, Oregon, and California : with the regions adjoining / compiled from the most recent authorities.

Hand drawn map showing the emigration route from Missouri to Oregon in 1845 with geographical features. A table of stops along the routes with mileage included. There are some brief written descriptions of areas of the west.
Date: 1846
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Mexico, California and Texas in 1851]

Relief shown by hachures. Includes illustrations of people washing gold, Mexican peasants and the ruins at Uxmal, Yucatan. There are colorful borders around each of the different states within the Mexican border.
Date: 1851
Creator: Martin, Robert Montgomery
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History