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Reproduction of a hand-drawn map showing the border area between Texas and Mexico from El Paso, Texas (left) to Van Horn, Texas (right). Several towns, forts, roads, and geographic features are marked primarily on the Texas side of the map.
Maps include local historical street maps, general political maps, along with unique thematic maps that illustrate amongst other things, military presence, mission sites, railroads, and population demographics across the state of Texas.
1 lut 1996 · In the eighty-two years of continuous Spanish presence in New Mexico, Texas along the Rio Grande from modern Presidio to El Paso bordered the path from the mines, missions, and ranches of northern Mexico to the land of the impressive Pueblos.
The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
Explorers armed with only the vaguest of maps (a number of which are currently on view at the Grace) and a misguided search for fortune, set off on a quest to colonize the “The Great Space of Land Unknown,” as Texas was labeled on maps of the period. For more than a century the Spaniards ruled Texas as a province, establishing 26 missions ...
The present Texas-New Mexico boundary, placing El Paso on the Texas side, was drawn in the Compromise of 1850. This compromise transferred much of Texas' northwestern lands, which the state government did not effectively control, to the federal government, where they became parts of modern-day states including New Mexico. El Paso, however ...
1 paź 1995 · With the Great Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico (1680), the exploration of Texas from the west or New Mexican side subsided. Many of the beleaguered Spanish survivors established themselves at El Paso del Norte (present-day Ciudad Juárez).
