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English: A New Map of Texas, with the Contiguous American & Mexican States
Description
English: Texas was still part of the Mexican state of Coahuila and Texas in 1835 when Young and Mitchell began this popular pocket map, primarily intended as an aid to colonists and prospective Anglo immigrants from the United States. The map copied many of the features of the more famous map first issued in 1830 by Anglo-colonizer Stephen F. Austin and cartographer Henry S. Tanner. Like the Austin-Tanner map, the Young-Mitchell map was issued in many editions. It includes the notations "Droves of Wild Cattle & Horses", "Immense Level Prairies", "Large Herds of Buffalo", and it indicates locations for various Indian tribes and Indian villages, rivers (including the Nueces as the southern boundary), creeks, hills, and other towns and villages. Unlike Austin's map, however, it also shows neighboring Louisiana, Indian Territory, "Santa Fe formerly New Mexico", and portions of Arkansas and Mississippi – apparently as a frame of reference for would-be immigrants. Inset texts promote Texas' resources and describe the empresario system of land grants, Texas' rivers and Texas itself as "peculiarly interesting" to the people of the United States "from its immediate contiguity, and from the circumstance of Anglo Americans forming the principle portion of its rapidly increasing population." The text notes that a political movement to separate from Coahuila was afoot and that the shared legislature in 1834 had already approved freedom of religion and an Anglo-American-style legal system.
Date between 1835 and 1836
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Source UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text
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James H. Young  (fl. from 1817 until 1866
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 wikidata:Q65591987
 
Description American geographer
Work period from 1817 until 1866
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1817-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1866-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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creator QS:P170,Q65591987
Samuel Augustus Mitchell  (1792–1868)  wikidata:Q3445785
 
Alternative names
S. Augustus Mitchell; S. Augustus Mitchell, Sr.
Description American cartographer
Date of birth/death 1792 18 December 1868 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bristol Philadelphia
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creator QS:P170,Q3445785
Credit line
English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections, Gift of Kitene Kading
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Map location Texas
Georeferencing Georeference the map in Wikimaps Warper If inappropriate please set warp_status = skip to hide.
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Place of publication Philadelphia
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Samuel Augustus Mitchell  (1792–1868)  wikidata:Q3445785
 
Alternative names
S. Augustus Mitchell; S. Augustus Mitchell, Sr.
Description American cartographer
Date of birth/death 1792 18 December 1868 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bristol Philadelphia
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creator QS:P170,Q3445785
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institution QS:P195,Q1230739
Dimensions height: 33 cm (12.9 in); width: 39.5 cm (15.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,33U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,39.5U174728
Medium hand-colored engraving on paper, hand-colored lithograph on paper
artwork-references

Huseman, Ben W. (2008) Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict in Maps, 1800-1900, Arlington: The University of Texas at Arlington Library, no. 12 , p. 16

Streeter, Thomas W. (1983) Bibliography of Texas 1795-1845: 2nd edition Revised and Englarged by Archibald Hanna with a Guide to the Microfilm Collection, Woodbridge: Research Publications, Inc., no. 1178A–G , pp. 389–390 "First published by Oxford University Press, 1955."

Davis, Marty, et al. (2007) Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps, Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, no. 18 , p. 37

Ristow, Walter W. (1985) American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, p. 303ff


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