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| Keywords: 1855 Colton Map of Texas - Geographicus - Texas-colton-1855.jpg A beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of Texas Largely based on the important De Cordova map of Texas this map covers the entire state as well parts of adjacent New Mexico Arkansas and the Indian Territory Oklahoma Names a number of historic routes including Connelly's Trail Lieutenants Smith and Whiting's Route the Comanche Trail the proposed Route for the Southern Pacific Railroad and the route to Fort Smith Colton also comments on the mineral wealth of the land makes note on good pasturing and identifies fords and springs Colton's interestingly includes the following note on the Texas-New Mexico border From the head waters of the Red Brazos and Colorado Rivers to the Rio Pecos is a desolate and sterile plain from 100 to 200 miles in width elevated about 4 500 feet above the Gulf of Mexico without water or timber and with a scanty vegetation Here Colton is making a cartographic stand against earlier claims published on Arrowsmith's important 1841 map of the same region The Arrowsmith map claims in contrast that this region is a delightful prairie rich and well timbered with Large Oak Map is hand colored in pink green yellow and blue pastels to define counties Surrounded by Colton's typical spiral motif border Dated and copyrighted to J H Colton 1855 Published from Colton's 172 William Street Office in New York City Issued as page no 25 in volume 1 of the first edition of George Washington Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World 1855 dated Size in 16 13 object history credit line accession number Texas-colton-1855 Colton G W <i>Colton's Atlas of the World Illustrating Physical and Political Geography</i> Vol 1 New York 1855 First Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Joseph Hutchins Colton Old maps of Texas 1855 maps | ||||
