Lithographed map, with slight hand-coloring in outline. 35.5x55 cm. (14x21½").
Texas during final years of independancy, encompassing much of New Mexico including Santa Fe, with the panhandle boldly stretching nearly to the North Fork of the Platte River. Wheat calls this map "in many respects, a plagiarism of 1841 Arrowsmith," but allows the "addition of many details... this map exhibits the locations of the resettled Indian tribes west of the Mississippi-Missouri. A large, unnamed lake appears in place of Great Salt Lake... The boundaries of Texas, as here shown, follow the `Rio Bravo del Norte or Rio Grande' to its source (including Santa Fe, Taos and the New Mexican settlements east of that stream), thence north to 42º North Latitude, thence east to a point north of the source of the Arkansas, thence south to that source and southeasterly and easterly along that stream to 100º Longitude, thence south to the Red River, and thereafter as defined by treaty." In the area of the Llano Estacado appears the legend "According to Arrowsmith this tract of Country...is naturally fertile, well wooded & with a fair proportion of water." There is a table printed at the left-hand portion, and what Wheat calls "An important table of `Authorities,'" including Humboldt, Pike, Long, Fremont, Austin, and others. The map was also published in a larger scale by the U.S. Senate.
Provenance: Alta California Books, 5/70
References: Streeter, Bib. of Texas, 1543 B. W-TW 478. Orozco y Berra, no. 1002.
Condition:
Some toning, soiling and creasing plus old folds, 6" tear in upper left neatly repaired on verso, a few other verso repairs, small holes at some fold intersections; about very good.